Notes: | The first collected edition of Prudentius. Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue; dating based on paper evidence (Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries); Fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries dates to not after 2 December 1497, Goff dates to not after 26 April 1498, and Hain dates to around 1490. Colophon: Aurelij Clementis Prudentij opera prude[n]s lector hoc ordine impressa inuenies. Primu[m] in vtru[m]q[ue] testame[n]tum Tetrastica. Deinde eum quem de diuinitate libru[m] scripsit Apotheosimq[ue] titulauit. Psichomachia sequitur. Hamartigenia hijs recco ordi[n]e additur Peri stephano[n] subditur, sic eni[m] gr[a]ece liber ad martyrium inuitarorius inscribitur. Diurnorum vero hymnorum libro (qui et Cathemerinon dicitur)et eo que[m] contra Symmachum, idololatria[m] defende[n]te[m] scripsit, pulchro et recto ordine, totu[m] op[us] consummatur. Signatures: a-z⁶ [et]⁶ A-D⁶. Portions of Peristephanon and Cathemerinon printed in 2 columns; 31 lines; types (from BMC), 175G (title), 106(98)G (headings, colophon), 88(81)G; capital spaces, some with guide letters. Last leaf blank. Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ip01027000 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M35851 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 13432 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry P-1027 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IX, page 59 (IA. 47759b; IA.47759a) Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 9031 Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, entry 3263 Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, entries 3521, 3522, 3523
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