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EARLY ROME IMPRINT JOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS. Homiliae super Joannem. [277] (of [280]) leaves; lacks first 2 blank leaves and last leaf. Roman type.

EARLY ROME IMPRINTJOHANNES CHRYSOSTOMUS. Homiliae super Joannem. [277] (of [280]) leaves; lacks first 2 blank leaves and last leaf. Roman type. Rubricated, and with four-line manuscript initial c on [16]r and seven-line initial q on [17]v, both in gold with penwork decoration in colors. Folio, 313x213 mm, 18th-century vellum, spine wormed, top compartment imperfect, joints cracked; several tiny wormholes through opening leaves not impairing legibility, soiling and insect matter on first page, marginal foxing and dampstaining elsewhere. Early Rome Franciscan ownership inscription on first page ("Bibliothece Tiburtine Fratrorum Minorum Observantium"); 19th-century bookplate of Rev. William Burt. (Rome: [Georgius Lauer], 1470)

  • Notes: first edition. The first book produced by Lauer, 3 years after the introduction of printing in Rome. BMC IV, 36; Goff J286.

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