De viris illustrib[us].

Accession number: 
PML 27539.3
Author: 
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [not after 1472]
Description: 
[37] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): B[ea]ti hieronimi p[res]b[yte]ri prolog[us] in libr[orum] de viris illustrib[us].
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁶(+4*)]: 37 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Often found with Goff A1089, A1225, A1333 (incl. A1337), E106, G221, H179, I4 and P1001, in any combination. Some copies of the set (e.g. Windsor RL) have a separate small leaf with a collective title of the ten tracts (see BMC, reprint). The collection has this edition with rubricator's date of '72' in a private collection in USA (Roland Folter); previously dated before 5 June 1473 from the rubrication date ('1473 vigil pentec') of the Sammelband in Munich.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy with damage for final few leaves from former binding clasps attachments; text not effected.
PML copy listed under Division B in Checklist.

Variant Title: 

De viris illustribus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes, and boxes around roman numerals in text (same in entire Sammelband). Annotations: No notations in text. Evidence of former Sammelband: "6" in top right corner (leaf [1]/1r) and modern pencil foliation 1-37.

Provenance: 
Berlin, Royal Library, stamp, ca. 1841/42 and deaccession stamp (leaf [1]/1r of Eucherius and leaf [4]/6v of Jerome); Lathrop C. Harper, A Selection of Incunabula, Pt. V (March 1930), no. 911; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, July 1930.
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