Imprint from Goff/ISTC.

Signatures: [a-i⁸]

Binding: unbound.

Decorated initial; capital spaces, supplied in red; red illuminations.

Boxed in the Van Ess Collection under "Tractatus de moribus".

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, G-151

Incunabula short title catalogue, ig00151000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 10654

BM 15th cent., II: 611

Hain-Copinger 15672*

Purchased; Leander van Ess (1772-1847); 1838.

The marginal insignium on the first page of the book, with green pine tree and the motto "God is my hope" (Spes mea Deus), is an ownership stamp which has not been identified. A later ownership mark, in the top margin, is that of the Jesuits at Rottenburg, which was in the diocese of COnstance until the 19th century and later became the see of a suffragan diocese of Freiburg. The books of the Rottenburg Jesuits went to the University of Freiburg's library between 1797 and 1791 at the time of the suppression of the Jesuit order. This item was bought from the duplicate collections amassed by the University Library at Freiburg im Breisgau. This item was a duplicate of a book numbered 31304. This item was part of over 13,000 items purchased in 1838 from Leander van Ess as the core of then-fledgling Union Theological Seminary's library. Volume 3 of the [Catalog of the Van Ess collection] lists the manuscripts included in the purchase.

'so precious a foundation' : the library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York / Edited by Milton McC. Gatch. New York : Union Theological Seminary and the Grolier Club, 1996. 0910672172

Exhibited: "so precious a foundation," organized by Milton McC. Gatch, 1996.