_Fol. 1, blank._ _Fol. 2^a_: Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles:
de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes: cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_
moralizatis et misticis: Incipiunt feliciter. _Fol. 160^b, col. 1_,
COLOPHON: Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs:
de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis
Recollectorij finis est feliciter. LAVS. DEO. _Fol. 160^b, col. 2_:
Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_.
_Fol. 163^a_: Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ _et_ capitulo_rum_
op_er_is præcedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. _Fol. 170^a_:
Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._
Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).
On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.
This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.
Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without
place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to
have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.
The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10-3/4 × 7-1/2 in.
Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. £5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending
and binding by Roger Payne £1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."
5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliæ XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer.]
28 August, 1473.
_Fol. 1^a_: Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_
episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. _Fol. 1^b_: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA
[R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.
Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. _Fol. 2^a_: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT
EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. _Fol. 141^b_,
COLOPHON: Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi
gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M
cccc lxxiij. _Fol. 142^a_: _Table of the homilies in the order of the
liturgical year._
Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the
page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for
capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and
initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th
cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).
Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three
next following works bound with it, are from the press of Günther
Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the
same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by
the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently
printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to
make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been
his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the
appearance of his first dated book.
The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 × 8-1/4
in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. £2.12.6, binding and restoring
17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M.
Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795."