Compe[n]diu[m] siue Breuiariu[m] primi volvminus Annalivm sive historiarvm, de origine regvm et gentis Francorvm / ad reverendissimvm in Christo patrem et principe[m] dominu[m] Laurentiu[m] Episcopu[m] vuirtzpurgen[um] orie[n]talisq[ue][!] Francie ducem. Ioannis Tritemij abbatis [woodcut: the imperial double eagle] Cum gratia et priulegio.

f° 56 has a book-plate of a Bishop of Sperper (or Spire) and on verso a statement in autograph of A. Firmin Didot that he purchased the vol. of Potier, in 1852--(See F.-D. catalogue 1884, no. 434). Book-plates of Didot & T.L. DeVinne.
f2[superscript]4, a woodcut of the author offering his book to the Bishop of Wurtzburg; a few woodcut capitals, and headings in large type same as that used in the 1457 Psalter. The colophon contains a tradition of the invention of printing by Fust, handed on by him to Peter Schoeffer & to his nephew (?) Johann the printer of this book.
First ed.
Imprint from colophon.
See colophon for "printing."