Collation: fol.: v.1: a-b⁶ c⁴ A-H⁶ I⁸ K-T⁶ [$4 () signed]; 132 leaves: p. [32] 1-215 [16] blank; v.2: a-c⁶ A-Z⁶ ²a-²z⁶ 2A-3F⁶ [$4 (-a1) signed]; 468 leaves: p. [36] 1-847 [51] 2 blank.

Title vignettes; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Title page of vol. 2 reads: "Alter tomvs Commentariorvm de verbi Dei corrvptelis, adversvs novos et veteres sectariorum errores ... Secunda editio ... "

Includes seven poems, one on John the Baptist and the others on Mary, by the professor of medicine at Ingolstadt, Philipp Menzel. The poems are reproduced in his Carmina. Ingolstadt, 1596, p. 1-18. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel

Numerous full-page woodcut illustrations including one of John the Baptist, the Tree of Jesse with crowned kings and Mary and Child at the top (v.2, c6b) and the key episodes of Mary's life.

Includes index.

Errata: v.2, p. [848]

Backer-Sommervogel, II, 674

Burns Library copy: paper labels on front pastedown: "Sold by Thomas Baker, Bookseller, 72 Newman Street, London, W., Eng."; unidentified crest with a mitre and crook and the initials "M. A. Z. R."

Burns Library copy: embossing on front free-endpaper: "The Library Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass."

Burns Library copy: stamps on t.p.: "Biblioth. S. S. Cyrilli et Methodii IHS"; "Dem Kloster Roth."

Burns Library copy: bound in vellum with crest and "IA * F * A 1595" stamped on the front cover; housed in phase box

c.1: 01-26740