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Creator:
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Title(s):
Liber Epistolarum sancti Hieronymi.
Additional Title(s):
Correspondence
Published/Created:
[Basel] : [Nicolaus Kesler], [1497]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0832
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zi +7692: Misbound: in part I, ff. 142-152 (c.sig.a2-b6) are after f.1; in part II, ff. 165-178 (c.sig.A-B) are before f.1; in part III, ff. 191-202 (c.sig. aa-bb) are at the end of part II. Part I sig. z2, z7 and last a1 wanting. Slightly water-stained and worm-eaten. Modern half-leather binding. Manuscript notes on inside of front cover of part I read: "From the library of the late Dr. Wilson". "N. Hewit's from his friend Dr. Meigs, Philadelphia Oct. 1834". "Presented to the Linonian library by Rev. N. Hewit, D.D. Bridgeport, Conn. Feb. 1862". Initials painted in red. Numerous manuscript notes in margins.
Vol. 2 has title: Epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi pars secunda.
Vol. 3 has title: Epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi pars tertia.
Imprint from verse colophon (v. 3, leaf Hh8v).
Vol. 1: [152] leaves (leaves [140] and [152] blank); v. 2: [178] leaves (leaves [164] and [178] blank); v. 3: [202] leaves (leaf [202] blank).
Signatures: v. 1: a-y⁶ z⁸, a-b⁶ (z8, b6 blank); v. 2: A-Z⁶ AA-CC⁶ DD⁸, ²A⁶ B⁸ (DD8, ²B8 blank); v. 3: aa-zz⁶ Aa-Ff⁶ Gg-Hh⁸ aa⁸ bb⁴ (bb4 blank).
Woodcut of St. Jerome, unsigned but by Albrecht Dürer, on verso of title-page to v. 1.
Xylographic title-page to v. 1; woodcut printer's device.
Initial spaces, with guide-letters.
Unsigned poem, "Narrat beatus Hiero. vitam quam tenuit in eremo": v. 1, leaf b2v.
"Vita sancti Hieronymi": v. 1, leaves b3r-b5v.
With the table of Theodorus Laelius.
Proctor, 7692
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1221
Incunabula short title catalogue, ih00176000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H176
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 8565*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 12436
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III, page 772 (IB. 37661)
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 4228
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0832: Imperfect: two leaves only, including title leaf. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Christian saints -- Correspondence.
Hewit, Nathaniel, 1788–1867 -- Presentation inscription from Dr. Meigs.
Hewit, Nathaniel, 1788–1867 -- Presentation inscription to the Linonian Library.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. Correspondence.
Meigs, Dr. -- Presentation inscription to N. Hewit.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Wilson, Dr. -- Ownership.
Yale College (1718–1887). Linonian Society. Library -- Presentation inscription from Rev. N. Hewit.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Laelius, Theodorus, 1427–1466.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528, illustrator.
Kessler, Nikolaus, printer.
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  • Inventarium primae partis epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi
  • Inventarium secundae partis epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi
  • Epistolarum Sancti Hieronymi pars tertia.

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