A manual for the clergy, containing etymological and grammatical explanations of the difficult words in the Bible and the liturgical hours, arranged in the order of the Bible and the church year, with an alphabetical index.

Name of printer taken from Goff.

Colophon: Expliciunt expositiones [et] correctiones vocabulorum libri qui apellatur Mamotrectus tam biblie [quam] aliorum plurimorum librorum. Impressum venetiis die .18. Iunij Mccccxcviij.

Signatures: [pi]²⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [cum]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-H⁸ (H₈ blank). In 2nd sequence, gathering F is signed with lower case f.

Gothic print; text in double columns, printed on both sides; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.

Includes index.

Prelim. leaf 1v: "Incipit vocabulari[u]m in mamotrectum s[ecundu]m ordinem alphabeti".

Leaf a1r: "Prologus autoris in mamotrectum".

Hain *10574

Goff M-254

Proctor 5702

Burns Library copy: occasional marginal notes in ms., cut off by binder, affecting text of notes. In ms. above colophon: "Est m.i.d. Jo[hanne]s [?] de Oldis".

Burns Library copy: bound in vellum over boards.