Incipit libell[us] de regimi[n]e rusticor[um]
Subtitle: q[ui] etia[m] valde vtilis est curatis capellanis drossatis schultetis [sic] ac alijs officiarijs eisdem i[n] vtroq[ue] statu p[re]side[n]tibus
Contributors: Bartholomaeus, de Unkel, active 1475-1485, printer; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co
Publisher: Bartholomaeus de Unkel
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Cologne
Language: lat
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Religious life; Peasants
Other titles: Incipit libellus de regimine rusticorum; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: De regimine rusticorum
Notes: Title from caption on a2.

Imprint from Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum; date from ISTC.

Signatures: a-h́ı íœ (a1 and i6 blank).

Chancery quarto; 27 lines per page; initial spaces with guide letters.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, R-294

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 1, page 244

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ir00294000

Cataloged 20171006 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171030 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in ca. 19th-/20th-century black goatskin and orange marbled papers. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Bookplate of the BPL James Lyman Whitney Fund. Dealer's description laid on to front pastedown. Leaf a1 (blank) wanting. Rubricated in blue and red. Heavy ink setting-off throughout, duplicating entire pages in reverse. Leaf dimensions: 203 x 135 mm. Purchased in May, 1970, from E.P. Goldschmidt, London.