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<dl><dd>Title devised by cataloger</dd>
<dd>Five works, with separate caption titles and colophons</dd>
<dd>Colophon to 1st work (Nosce te): Actum hoc opus ex inclyta atq[ue] famosa officina Nicolai Ienson Gallici: olympiadibus d[omi]nicis. Anno uidelicet Mcccclxxx, q[ua]rtas k[a]le[n]das Iulias [28 June 1480]</dd>
<dd>Colophon to 2nd work (Corona senum): Actum quoq[ue] hoc opus ex inclyta famosaq[ue] officina Nicolai Ieson [sic] ... anno dominice natiuitatis Mcccclxxx quintas nonas Iulias [3 July 1480]</dd>
<dd>Colophon to 3rd work (De humilitate interiori ...): Actu[m] quoq[ue] opus Venetiis ex inclyta famosaq[ue] officina Nicolai Ienson ... Anno dominice natiutitatis Mcccc [sic] pridie nonas iulias [6 July 1400, i.e. 1480]</dd>
<dd>Colophon to 4th work (De immensa charitate Dei): Actum quoque est hoc opus Venetiis, ex inclyta, atque famosa officina Nicolai Ieson [sic] ... Anno dominice natiuitatis Mccccclxxx [sic] nonas Iulias [7 July 1580, i.e. 1480]</dd>
<dd>Colophon to 5th work (Libellus in praeparatione infirmorum): Actum quoq[ue] hoc opus Venetiis ex inclyta famosaq[ue] officina summi uiri Nicolai Ienson ... Anno dominice natiuitatis Mcccclxxx decimasquartas k[a]lendas Sextiles [19 July 1480]</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-n⁸ o¹² (a1 and o12 blank); ²a-c⁸ (²a1 blank); ³a⁸ (³a1 and ³a8 blank); ⁴a¹² (⁴a1 blank); ⁵a-g⁸ (⁵a1 and ⁵g8 blank).</dd>
<dd>Chancery quarto; a5 recto: 26 lines, 144 x 89 mm; type: 115 (111)R; initial spaces, some with guide letters.</dd>
<dd>... Nosce te ... -- Liber qui intitulatur Corona senum -- Frater Ioannes ad fratres suos Carthusiensis Patauine cartusiae habitantes de humilitate interiori &amp; pacientia uera -- Ad fratres suos Cartusienses domus sanctorum Hieronymi &amp; Bernardi prope Paduam de i[m]mensa charitate dei ... -- Libellus in praeparatione infirmorum ..</dd>
<dd>Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, J274</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 181</dd>
<dd>Incunabula short title catalogue, ij00274000</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.152: early/contemporary manuscript foliation in upper right margins. Some initials supplied in brown ink. Initials supplied in red ink (⁵f8 to ⁵g3). Leaf dimensions: 200 x 138 mm.</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.152 with dealer's description tipped on to front pastedown. Early inscription on a1 verso: "Hic liber est congregationis s[an]c[t]e [Iustine?] deputatus Monasterio sancte [Mariae sive Abbatiae?] florentine qu[a]e dominus Marcell [...]" Ink stamp of the Strozzi family of Florence on a2 recto (motto: "Expecto"). Early/contemporary marginalia. Manuscript "tabula christiane religionis" on ⁴a12 verso to ⁵a1 recto. Purchased from the Vollbehr collection through Gimbel Brothers (catalog no. 337) in June, 1943.</dd></dl><dl><dd>BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.152 quarterbound in ca. 19th-century calfskin and marbled papers.</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Catholic Church; Theology, Doctrinal</div>
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<dl><dd>Joannes Carthusiensis, active 1480</dd>
<dd>Jenson, Nicolas, approximately 1420-1480, printer</dd></dl></div>
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