Binding: Half bound in calf over pasteboard with the author and title written in ink on the fore edge. Script, ff. 1-180v: Cursive. Layout, ff. 1-180v: 2 columns of 54 lines; ruling very difficult to see, but at least the frame is in some form of drypoint (see f. i).
Former Owner(s):
Leander van Ess; Sir Thomas Phillipps, his n. 589 (from "591" as first inscribed on the pastedown). On f. i, bookseller slip of the firm of Bull and Auvache, 34 & 35 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, W. C., London, Cat. 358 (October 1911).
ff. 1-180v: Contemporary foliation in arabic numerals in the center of the upper recto margin. ff. 1-180v: Latin. ff. i + 1-180v: On f. i, "Incipiunt capitula in epistolari beati Iheronimi prespiteri" with chapter list on f. 1r-v. On ff. 1v-2, the first letter is that of Pope Damasus to Jerome, "Dormientem te et longo iam tempore legentem potius quam scribentem questiunculis ad te missis excitare disposui . . ." The final leaves, ff. 177v-180v, in a more cursive and cramped script but with the same... Incipit, ff. i + 1-180v: et animos semper malum conscientie formidantes, cereos accendisse sit gratum. Explicit, ff. i + 1-180v: Postquam epistolam tue sanctitatis accepi confestim accito notario.
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