BEIN 2022 Folio 32: Rubricated throughout; manuscript capitals in red at opening of each book, with opening to book 3 in black and red. Penned dragon attached to first manuscript capital. Book numbers provided in footer of each page in contemporary hand, in header in later cursive. Manuscript quiring visible on some pages. Contemporary manuscript annotations. Three acquisition notes on blank recto of first page.

BEIN 2022 Folio 32: Imperfect: Slightly wormed at end.

BEIN 2022 Folio 32: Provenance: Beguine convent, Essen, 1546, "Anno xv[c] und xlvj Dyt bock hort den susteren tho Essen in den Ketwich in des paters huys pleget dyt tho [hin etc]" (manuscript on flyleaf); reception inscription dated 1568, "Anno d[omi]ni 1568 in Vigilia pasche qu[a]e fuit 17 Aprilis, datus est mihi liber iste co[m]modato, usque ad residentia[m] alicui[us] sacerdotis, in domo sororu[m] co[n]ventualiu[m], cui[us] appellatio vulgo nomen patris obtinuit." Witnessed by Ailheides de Colonia, Abbatissa Lemgarda Comitessa ab [deipholt] Ailheidis de Orsey, [G]oide Cathrina Meerberks, and Sti[rr]a van Bercheny, and other sisters (manuscript on flyleaf); Capuchin monastery, Essen, "[F?] Capucinorum Essendiensiam" (manuscript on flyleaf).

BEIN 2022 Folio 32: Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over beveled wooden boards with two brass clasps (one repaired). Nails holes visible on cover from removed original brasses. Parchment quire guards from an unidentified 15th-century manuscript. Mostly uncut deckle visible throughout.

Title from incipit (leaf 3/2r).

Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.

Dated "before 20 September 1479?" by BM 15th cent. A copy in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has rubricator's date of 11 June 1478.

Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3-14¹⁰ 15¹⁰(1+1) 16⁸ 17-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23-27¹⁰ 28⁸ 29-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33¹⁰ 34⁸].

Text in double columns, 58 lines per column.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "royal"-size paper.

"Registru[m]": leaves 1/1v-2/10v.

Final page blank.

Prefacio beati Gregorii pape in beatum Iob.

Praefatio beati Gregorii Papae in beatum Job

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 11431

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 246 (IC. 4078)

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-429

Incunabula short title catalogue, ig00429000

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, G-317

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 7927*

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 1177

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 396

Bible > Commentaries.

Christian ethics > Catholic authors > Early works to 1800.

Christian ethics > Catholic authors.

Incunabla.

Commentaries.

Early works.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Germany Cologne.