Incipit libellus dans modu[m] lege[n]di abbreviaturas in vtro[que] iure
Contributors: Printer of the Modus legendi abbreviaturas, printer; Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1484
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Law; Early works to 1800; Abbreviations; Latin Abbreviations
Work titles: Modus legendi abbreviaturas
Notes: Attributed to Werner von Schussenried. Cf. The Library, ser. 3, v. 2, April 1911, p. 181.

Werner von Schussenried is named as author in an acrostic in the text. Cf. ISTC.

Title from incipit leaf [2]a (a₂).

Imprint from colophon leaf [34]a: ...Basiliense i[m]pressus Anno d[omi]ni MCCCCLxxxiiij die vij mensis Aprilis.

ISTC names printer as "Printer of the 'Modus legendi abbreviaturas'"; GW attributes printing to Michael Wenssler (fl. 1472-1497).

Signatures: a⁸( -a₁ blank) b⁸ c-e⁶.

Burke Library copy: Bound third with: Caracciolo, Roberto. Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia. [Strasbourg : Martin Schott, 3 Sept. 1485] -- Margarita decreti seu Tabula Martiniana [Speyer: Peter Drach, about 1482-89].

Burke Library copy: Rubricated throughout, with large initials in red and blue.

Goff M-745

Hain-Copinger 11467

BM 15th cent., III, p. 761 (IB. 37556)

Polain 2750

ISTC im00745000

GW M24947

Gatch. Van Ess catalog, B-170c