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Author / Creator:Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.
Uniform title:Postillae perpetuae
Imprint:[Rome : Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471-72]
Description:5 v. 41 cm.
Language:Latin
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy: Volume 1, parts 1 and 2: "Provenance is from the Roman family of the princes Massimo. Sweynheym and Pannartz started to print in Rome in their palace. The shelfmarks on spines correspond to the ancient location of the book on the shelves of the Library Palace."-- Dealer description.
University of Chicago Library's copy: Volumes 2-5: Provenance, owned by Henri of Lovenberch, Canon of the Church of Liege. Lovenberch bequeathed the volumes to the Brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross in Brandenburg.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2780904
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Other authors / contributors:Bussi, Giovanni Andrea, 1417-1475
Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478.
Notes:Without t.p., pagination, or signatures; 46 lines to a full page; illuminated border and initial letters.
Colophon v.1, 2, & 3: ... Córadus suueynheym Arnoldus pannartzq[ue] ... Rome impresserunt ... In domo Petri de Maximis ... M.CCCC.LXXI-M.CCCC.LXXII.
Vol. 1 dated 18 Nov. 1471; v. 2, 26 May 1472; v. 3, 14 Jan. 1472; v. 4, undated; v. 5, 13 Mar. 1472; prefatory letter dated 20 Mar. 1472.
Edited by Joannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria, who also wrote the letter prefixed to v. 5 in which he gives a list of the works, with number of copies of each, printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz. Cf. Goff N-131.
Vol. 1, fol. 2r begins: Jo An. Alerien[sis] S.D. nostri Pape Xysti IIII Bibliothecarii. In recognitione[m] Nicolai de Lyra ad ipsu[m] divinu[m] Pontifice[m] Epistola. Vol. 1, fol. 3v: In presenti uolumine continentur expositiones libro[rum] infra scriptoru[m] ueteris tesamenti ... Vol. 1, fol. 4r: Primus prologus Nicolai de Lyri de com[m]endatio[n]e sacre scripture in generalia. Vol. 4, fol. 1v: Inpn̄ti uolumine continentur expositiones Nicolai de Lyra libroru[m] noui testam[en]ti ...
v.1, v.2, 450 numb. leaves.
v.3, 1 unnumb., 393 numb. leaves (first 4 fols. wanting)
v.4, 1 unnumb., 233 numb. leaves.
v.5, 1 unnumb., 289 numb. leaves. (fol. 290 wanting)
v.5, fol.1: Letter to Sextus IV dated March 20, 1472, giving list of works printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz with no. of copies of each work.
Hain, 10,363
Goff, N-131
Proctor, 3321-25

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