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HIERONYMUS, Saint. Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive vitas patrum. Ulm: Johann Zainer, [ca 1478-80]. Chancery 2 o (303 x 213 mm). Collation : [1 1 0 2-23 1 0 . 8 24 6 25-36 1 0 . 8 37-39 1 0 40 8 41 1 0 42-43 8 ]. 385 leaves (of 386; lacks last blank). 41 lines and foliation, double column in table. Gothic types 5:136 (headings and foliation) 4:96 (text). Capital spaces. Rubricated with 8-line divided opening initial in red and blue, red or blue Lombard initials, red paragraph mark and capital strokes. (First gathering loose, minor worming and staining, a few marginal tears). Contemporary German blindstamped calf over wooden boards, single clasp (upper joint cracked, some loss to spine, catch missing, few scratches and old repairs). Provenance : Dr. Martin Conitz of ? Chaumont-Porcien (early 16th-century inscription: "ex testamento Egregii quondam domini doctoris Martini Conitz...") -- Calvi Mons ? (inscription dated 1543) -- late 15th-century inscription about the miseries of old age -- Arnold ? (inscription dated 1637 and a note on the work by B. Rhenanus in the same hand) -- Franciscan monastery (illegible inscription) -- Justus Senger (17th-century inscription and note on the work) -- Stephen Clodh from Hennan? in charge of St. Michael, Fulda (17th-century inscription: "Ad usum Stephani de Clodh ex Hennan praepositi sancti Michaelis Fuldae") -- Charles Thomas Stanford (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplates; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 25 June 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943. Fourth edition. BMC II,528 (IB. 9229); H *8594; Proctor 2536; Goff H-200.