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PETRUS LOMBARDUS. Glossa in epistula Pauli. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner, not after 1473]. Royal 2 o (405 x 290 mm). Collation : [1-4 1 0 5 12 6-9 1 0 10-11 8 12-20 1 0 21 8 ]. 206 leaves. 58 lines with marginalia, double column. Gothic type: 1:96. Capital spaces. Opening 9-line historiated initial illuminated in gold and color, containing a miniature of St. Paul with floral marginal extention, 13 8- and 9-line initials all painted in different colors, smaller initials in red or blue with red or blue paragraph marks, signed by rubricator G. Martinus. (Light dampstaining, heavy at beginning, some minor worming.) 19th-century half sheep and marbled boards (wear to spine and abrasions to sides). Provenance : Würzburg, Carmelite Convent of St. Barbara (ownership inscription on first leaf) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 4 May 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943. FIRST EDITION, by the only fifteenth-century printer active in Esslingen. Feyner's press was active in that city between 1473 and 1477, after which he established the first printing shop in Urach. Feyner's type must have come from Strassburg, and a group of approximately 12 editions previously assigned to Fyner in Esslingen were in fact printed by Heinrich Eggestein in Strassburg. The last two gatherings (20 1 0 and 21 8 ) in this copy (and in the New York Public Library copy) differ slightly from the collation listed in BMC and BSB-Ink. (v 8 and x 1 0 ). BMC II,512 (IC. 8914); BSB-Ink. P-373; H*10204; Goff P-475. A TALL COPY.