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<dl><dd>Title from caption on leaf [1]₁ recto.</dd>
<dd>Imprint derived from colophon ([12]₁₀ verso): Impressus mediolani [per] Chirstofo[rum] Valdarfer Ratisponensem .M.cccclxxiii die vii Ianuarii."</dd></dl><dl><dd>Signatures: [1-6⁸ 7⁶ 8¹⁰ 9-11⁸ 12¹⁰; 13-14⁸; 15⁸; 16⁶] (all leaves unsigned).</dd>
<dd>Median quarto; [1]₂ recto: 28 lines, 150 x 98 mm; type: 107R; initial spaces with guide letters.</dd>
<dd>Contents: ([1]₁ recto) Ambrosius: De officiis ministrorum, three books -- ([13]₁ recto) Paulinus Nolanus [pseudo-]; [Paulinus Mediolanensis]: Vita Ambrosii. Dedicated to Augustinus -- ([15]₁ recto) Ambrosius [pseudo-]: [Epistola de passione beatae Agnetis virginis.] 'Vita gloriose virginis Agnetis' -- ([15]₇ recto) Ambrosius [pseudo-]: [Epistola] de passione S. Vitalis et Agricolae -- ([16]₁ recto) Ambrosius [pseudo-]: [Epistola] de passione sanctorum martyrum Gervasii et Prothasii -- ([16₂] recto) Ambrosius: [Sermo] de inventione corporum sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii.</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 725</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-236</dd>
<dd>Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A560</dd>
<dd>Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00560000</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.82 with gatherings [13]-[16] bound-in at front. Leaf [13]₁ torn and repaired, with gilt historiated initial showing St. Ambrose writing in a book. Three-line initials rubricated in red and blue throughout. Leaf dimensions: 234 x 157 mm.</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.82: bookplate of the BPL J.L. Whitney Fund. Dealers' codes and prices. Early marginalia in several hands. Acquired in June, 1937.</dd>
<dd>BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.82 bound in diced russia rebacked in maroon goatskin ruled in gilt with two green leather labels. Early manuscript label on bottom edge of the text block.</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397; Christian ethics; Asceticism; Clergy; Pastoral theology</div>
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<dl><dd>Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397</dd>
<dd>Valdarfer, Christoph, active 1470-1488, printer</dd>
<dd>Paulinus, of Milan, active 4th century-5th century. Vita Ambrosii</dd></dl></div>
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