Uita Cristi cartuxano
By: romãçado por fray Ambrosio.
Contributors: Montesino, Ambrosio, d. 1514.; Stanislao, Polono, fl. 1491-1514.; Barros, João de, 1496-1570.; Murphy, Joseph J. (bookplate)
Publisher: Por industria [e] arte del ... Stanislao de Polonia ... arte impressoria, [e] impremiose a costa [e] espensas del ... Garcia de Rueda
Published: 1502
Place of publication: Alcalá de Henares
Language: cat
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Biography; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Vita Christi.
Notes: Imprint from colophon (v. 1); colophon (v. 4): Aqui se acaba el vita xp̄i cartuxano que fray Ambrosio Mo[n]tesyno ... ynterpetro de latin en romançe ... por ... Leotolpho de Saxonio ...  Vols. 1 and 4 are dated 1502, v. 2 and 3, 1503.

Signatures: v. 1: i-[xii] a-z8 aa-pp8 qq-rr6 (last blank); v. 2: ab-zb8 aaa-aat8 aav6 (last blank); v. 3: Ab-Lb8 Mb6 Nb-Zb8 Aab-Dda8 EE8 Ffa-QQa8 RRa6 (last blank); v. 4: A8 Aa-Zz8 AA-SS8 TT6 (last blank).

Vol. 1 not foliated; v. 2: cccxlj leaves; v. 3: cccxvij leaves; v. 4: [8], cccxxix (i.e. cccxxxiij) leaves.

Errors in foliation; v. 4: no. clviij-clx and cccxvj-cccxvij duplicated, no. clxxvij omitted.

RBSC copy: Vol. 1: Title page wanting.  Leaf a8 bound between leaves [xii] and aij.  Leaves a1 and b6-8 and blank rr6 wanting.  Some text on leaf ee7r erased; overwritten in MS., with marginal note in MS.

RBSC copy: Vol. 2: Leaf [i] (t.p.) and blank leaf aav6 wanting.

RBSC copy: Vol. 3: Leaf [i] (t.p.), leaf 119 (Qb1) and blank leaf RRa6 wanting.  Error in folding of inner quire of signature Cca (leaves ccj-ccviij) resulting in the following sequence of leaves: cciiij, cciij, ccvj, ccv.  With 4 slightly mutilated leaves from: Asia / Joan de Barros (Lixboa: Per Germão Galharde, 1552) bound in at front and end (identified by Prof. M.A. Buchanan by collation with copy in New York Public Library).

RBSC copy: Vol. 4: Leaves cccv and blank leaf TT6 wanting; prelim. leaves [1-8] (incl. t.p.) and leaves i-iij and cccxxix mutilated. Some text on leaves lxxiija, lxxiiijb, lxxxvija, lxxxixb and xciija erased; overwritten in MS.  With marginal note in MS. on leaf cxxix; other notes in MS.

RBSC copy: With the illustrated bookplate of Joseph J. Murphy.