Quattuor hic compressa opuscula
Contributors: Proba, active 4th century
Publisher: Per Bernardinum Benalium
Published: 1520
Place of publication: Impressum Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Bible; Commentaries; Sibyls
Other titles: Oracula Sibyllina.; Discordantie sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini.; Centones.
Work titles: Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini
Notes: In 2 pts., each with special t.p. and colophon, and separate signatures; t.p. of 2nd pt. reads: Probe Centone Vatis Clarissime a Diuo Hieronymo Comprobate. Centonam De fidei nostre Mysterijs e Maronis Carminibus excerptum Opusculum.

Place of publication and publisher statement from colophon (leaf c4r); GW gives date of publication [ca. 1495]; BM STC Italian gives it as: [1520?].

Signatures: [A]², B-D⁴, E², a-c⁴.

12 woodcuts of Sibyls (in German style?), on recto of each leaf, starting on leaf B2. Cf. Sander 775. Each figure is surrounded by woodcut borders.

Ornamental initials.

Goff B-121

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 348

IGI, I, p. 164, and II, p. 204

GW III, column 402

Binding: modern red morocco; gilt title on spine; dentelles on turn-ins in gilt.
Table of contents: title: (from title page) Discordantie sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi & Augustini; title: Sibyllaru[m] de Christo vaticinia: cu[m] appropriatis singularum figuris; title: Varia Iudeorum [et] gentilium de Christo testimonia; title: Centones Probe Falconie de vtriusq[ue] testamenti hystoriis ex carminibus uirgilii selecti: cum annotatione locorum ex quibus desumpti sunt: a diuo Hieronymo Comprobate.