Sixth century collection of legendary biographies of saints, built from the base of biographies and legends on Egyptian hermits already compiled in Greek (Apophthegmata Patrum or Sayings of the Fathers). The Latin collection contains translation or original writings of St. Jerome, Rufinus, Sulpicius Severus, Cassianus and others. This text underwent enrichments and interpolations.

Title from incipit, leaf [2]1.

Imprint from colophon; date from Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.)

Signatures: [1]¹⁰ [2-23]¹⁰/⁸ [24]⁶ [25-36]¹⁰/⁸ [37-39]¹⁰ [40]⁸ [41]¹⁰ [42-43]⁸ (last leaf blank).

Last foliated leaf misnumbered.

LC copy has opening page (leaf [2]1) decorated in gold and colors, with the opening initial in colors. Capital strokes and headlines in red; initials, paragraph marks, and underlining in red and blue. Some initials have pen drawn decoration in colors.

Goff H-200

Hain 8594*

GW M50882

BM 15th cent., II, p. 528-529 (IB. 9229)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih00200000

LC copy has stamped binding (dated 1664) and bookplate Ex Bibliotheca antiquo-nova Monasterii ad sanctum Petrum Salisburgi O. S. Benedicti ab Anno 1767, in alium ordinem redacta.