[Moralia super totam Bibliam].

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Moralia super totam Bibliam
Main Author: Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349
Other Authors: Ludovico, della Torre, active 15th century (Editor)
Butzbach, Paulus, active 1472-1481 (Printer)
Language:Latin
Published: [Mantua] : [Paulus de Butzbach], [29 Apr. 1481]
Subjects:
Bible > Commentaries > Early works to 1800.
Incunabula > Italy > Mantua > 1481.
Incunabula.
Deckled edges.
Manuscript waste.
Genre:
Commentaries
Early works to 1800.
Incunabula
Incunabula.
Deckled edges.
Manuscript waste.
Ownership and Custodial History:
MSU: Some early marginalia on leaves f1 and f2.
MSU: Pencilled annotations on last page of text.
Local Note:
MSU: Some capital spaces filled with crudely handwritten initials.
MSU: Large number of inclusions in paper for leaves E3-6.
MSU: Lacking leaf k7 and leaf K6 (blank). First leaf damaged, affecting a few lines of text in the middle of the leaf.
Binding Information:
MSU: Rebound in brown leather (faded) in the late 19th or early 20th century, with leather from contemporary boards preserved; manuscript waste used to guard first signature. Many leaves are untrimmed and retain deckled edges.
Physical Description:540 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)
Variant Title:
Exposit[i]o[n]es morales secu[n]du[m] sensu[m] misticu[m] su[per] tota[m] Biblia[m] compilate ab vtrius[que] testame[n]ti interprete domino Nicolao de Lyra ordinis minorum.
Postille morales seu mystice super omnes libros Sacre Scripture.
Format: Book
Description
Note:Written as a companion piece to the author's Postilla super totam Bibliam.
Title and imprint from ISTC.
The third edition, after editions in 1478 and 1479; the first edition to be printed in Italy and the last edition to appear in the 15th century.
"Edited, with table, by Ludovicus a Turri"--British Museum.
Colophon: Impressum hoc opus Ma[n]tue per Paulum Ioa[n]nis de Butschbach anno salutis Mcccclxxxj iij Kal. Madij regnante ibide[m] felicissime illustrissimo d[omi]no d[omi]no Federico de Go[n]zaga marchione tertio.
Dedicatory letter to Franciscus Raimondus on page [2] dated: Ex loco n[ost]ro Sancti Apolonij extra Brixiam Xii Kl. Decembris, MCCCCLXXX.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b⁶ c⁴ d-z⁸ A-I⁸ K⁶ L¹².
Leaf K6 is blank.
Capital spaces.
Register of signatures on final page.
Includes index.
Call Number:BS485 .N47 1481
XX folio
References:
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum (1963-1971 edition), v. 7, p. 932.
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, N-113.
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M26485.
Incunabula short title catalogue, in00113000.
Place of Publication:Italy -- Mantua.