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[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1483 Vitas patrum], anno D[omi]ni 1485 Nonas v[er]o Iulij [7 July]
Place of creationFrance, StrasbourgDate1485Note(s)Reference citation note: Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, H-207, Reference citation note: BM 15th cent., I, p. 98 (IB.1311), Reference citation note: Hain-Copinger, 8600*, Copy note: 1st leaf, blank, lacking. Initials decorated in colors on leaves b1r (9 lines) and r5r (7 lines); leafy border coming out of a figure on leaf b1r; other main initials in blue paint with red penwork infill; the smaller initials and paragraph marks provided in red throughout the book. A few annotations and references to leaf numbering in index, in brown ink. Twenty colored vellum tabs in alternate red and green (a few lacking) throughout the book; on a few of the leaves bearing the tabs, evidence of older tabs, now lacking; a vellum "Turk's head knot" on leaf b1. Bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.Extent30 cm (fol.)Associated name(s)Former owner: Smedley, William T. 1851-1934, (William Thomas), Associated name: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420, Former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, Former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. 1858-1936, (Emily Clara Jordan)Genre/form(s)IlluminationsRightshttps://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
