Platine historici Liber de vita Christi, ac Pontificum omniu[m], qui hactenus ducenti [et] vigintiduo fuere.

Vitae pontificum

[Nuremberg] : Impe[n]sa Antonij Koburger Nurenberge impressu[m], iij. Idus Augusti [11 Aug.] consummatum, anno Salutis [Christ]iane, 1481.

[256] p. ; 30 cm (fol)

Title from incipit (leaf [a]3r).
Leaf [a]1v reads: Hieronimus squarzaficus alexandrinus doctissimo viro Platine ...
Imprint from colophon (leaf [v]8r).
Signatures: [a]¹⁰, [b-r]⁶, [s]⁸, [t]⁶, [v]⁸.
Capital spaces.
Printed in 2 columns.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-769
BM 15th cent., II, p. 420 (IB.7224)
Hain-Copinger, 13047*

Germany -- Nuremberg.

INC P700 copy 1

Folger copy: leaves of 1st gatherings perforated, slightly affecting text. A few early manuscript notes in brown ink, in Latin and German with markings (cross, asterisk, etc.). Ownership inscription on leaf [a]2r "Monasterij Aspacensis"; another inscription on manuscript fragment (rear pastedown): "Legi Anno Dñi: j.600.1. F. Udalric[us] Müshwang"; inscription "Duplum" (from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) on leaf [a]1r. Contemporary quarter goatskin binding on wooden boards, blind tooled with double and triple fillet borders, stamps of St. John the Evangelist's symbol (cf. Schwenke-Schunke Evangelisten-Symbole 97 "Aspach Afrakloster"), rosettes, palm, and eagle on both covers; evidence of a plaque on fore-edge of back cover (from a chain?) and perforation on front cover going through the first 2 gatherings; 3 paper labels on spine with inscriptions of author, title, and date, one of them reading "20[? or 30?]"; vellum fragments from an early liturgical manuscript, used as pastedowns. Purchased in 1897.