Lot 142
Folio (285 x 202 mm). Collation: [*]⁴ a-z A-G⁶ H-I⁸. 199 leaves (of 200, lacking final leaf, blank), 2 columns, 62 lines and headline. Types: 165; 130; 76. Capital spaces with guide-letters. (Lacking 5 3/4-in. lower portion of title leaf affecting index text verso, some dampstaining and minor soiling.) Late 19th-century marbled boards (some wear).
Second Koberger edition of this collection of glosses on the Bible. Bartholomaeus was a Franciscan who studied and taught at Paris and Magdeburg. His work was very popular, and was translated from Latin into French in 1372 by Jean Corbechon, and into English in 1398 by Joh Trevisa. His important compendia of medieval knowledge was first published in Cologne in 1472.
Goff B141; HC 2510*; Pell 1876; CIBN B-104; BMC II 435; BSB-Ink B-99; GW 3413; ISTC ib00141000.