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<dl><dd><div><div>Title from incipit (a2 recto) as transcribed by Polain.</div></div><div><br></div></dd>
<dd>Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter.</dd>
<dd>Imprint derived from colophon (g10 verso): Epigram and colophon: Hoc Augustensis Ratdolt Germanus Erhardus, dispositis signis vndiq[ue] pressit opus ... Anno salutis 1482, pridie idus Octobris, Venetijs.</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-f⁸ g¹⁰ (a1=blank)</dd>
<dd>Chancery quarto; a4 recto: 31 lines, 142 x 96 mm; types: 92G (heading on a2 recto), 91G (text); 91Gk (a few words); heading on a2 recto printed in red; wooduct initials.</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 286</dd>
<dd>Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 13678</dd>
<dd>Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H560</dd>
<dd>Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00560000</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.35 lacking red-printed incipit at head of a2 recto, which, in this copy, is added in later manuscript facsimile. Leaves d3 and d6 bound in between e4 and e5. Leaf dimensions: 211 x 151 mm.</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.35 with BPL Bowditch Fund bookplate. Dealer's notes at front; pencil collation note, signed E. Talbott (Quaritch) and dated 9.2.21 on free endpaper at rear. Traces of early marginal annotations, now mostly washed away. Purchased in April, 1921</dd>
<dd>BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.35 bound in modern brown goatskin. Both covers tooled in gilt. All text block edges gilt.</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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<dl><dd>Hyginus, C. Julius</dd>
<dd>Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer</dd></dl></div>
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