Opera diui Hieronymi in hoc volu. co[n]tenta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420, author.

Contributor:

Gadolo, Bernardino, 1463-1499, editor.

Giovanni e Gregorio de'Gregori, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Venice -- 1497.

Printers' devices (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Annenberg Research Institute (bookplate) (stamp) (CJS Incunable copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ([194] leaves; [651] leaves (leaves [469] and [516] blanks)) ; 33 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Opera divi Hieronymi in hoc volu. contenta

Goff title: Commentaria in Bibliam

Title on leaf [B]1r: Expositiones diui Hieronimi in Hebraicas questiones super Genesim necnon super duodecim prophetas minores et quatuor maiores nouiter impresse cum priuilegio

Place of Publication:

Impresse Venetiis : Per Ioannes & Gregoriu[m] de Gregorius fratres, Anno domini 1497[-1498]

Contents:

(from leaf A1r) Et primo. Vita ipsius Hieronymi

Hebraicarum quaestionum liber unus

Explanationum in Oseae prophetam libri tres

Explanationu[m] in Ioelam prophetam liber unus

Prima explanationis in Amos prophetam liber unus

Secunda explanationis in Amos [pro]phetam libri tres

Explanationum in Abdiam [pro]phetam libri duo

Explanationum in Ionam [pro]phetam liber unus

Explanationu[m] in Michaeam prophetam libri duo

Explanationum in Naum prophetam liber unus

Explanationu[m] in Abachuc [pro]phetam libri duo

Explanationu[m] in Soponiam prophetam liber unus

Explanationum in Aggeum prophetam liber unus

Explanationum in zachariam [pro]phetam libri tres

Explanationum in Malachiam [pro]phetam liber unus

Explanationum in Esaiam prophetam libri decem & octo

Explanationum in Hieremiam prophetam libri sex

Secundae explanatio[n]is in lame[n]tatio[n]es hieremiae libri tres

Tertiae explanatio[n]is in orationes hieremiae liber unus

Explanationum in Ezechielem prophetam libri quattuordecim

Explanationu[m] in dece[m] uisio[n]es Danielis [pro]phetae liber unus

Explanationu[m] in Mattheum euangelistam libri quattuor

Explanationum in Marcum euangelistam liber unus

Explanationu[m] in epistola[m] Pauli ad Galathas libri quattuor

Explanationu[m] in epistola[m] Pauli ad Ephesios libri tres

Explanationu[m] in epistola[m] Paul ad Titum liber unus

Explanatione[m] [sic] in epistolam Pauli ad Philomone[m] liber unus

Explanationum in parabolas Salomonis libri tres

Explanationum in librum Ecclesiasten liber unus

Translatio psalterii iuxta hebraicam ueritatem

Explanationum totius psalterii liber unus

Interpretatio hebraicorum nominum.

Notes:

Imprint information from explicit of each volume.

Explicit of volume 1 (leaf y6r) reads: Finiunt explanationes Beati Hieronymi in duodecim Prophetas: ea quippe Solertia ac Diligentia non minus in corrige[n]do [quam] imprime[n]do adhibita: qua[m] sanctus sancto Afflatus spiritu doctor efflagitet. Impresse Venetiis per Ioannes & Gregoriu[m] de Gregorius fratres Anno domini. 1497.

Explicit of volume 2 (leaf PPp7r) reads: Finiu[n]t i[n]signia haec at[que] [prae]clarissimus Diui Hieronymi o[per]a ... Habes ita[que] studiosissime lector Ioan[n]is & Graegorii de Gregoriis fretus officio ea nouiter i[m]praessa co[m]mentaria: Vnde totius ueteris & noui testamenti: ueritate[m] rectu[m][que] sensu[m] qua[m]facillime appraehe[n]dere possis: quae si tuae omnino bibliotecae ascripseris magna[m] co[n]sequeris uoluptate[m]: maiores[que] in dies fructus suscipies. Venetiis [per] praefatos fratres Ioanne[m] & Gregoriu[m] de Gregoriis. Anno d[omi]ni. 1498. die. 25. Augusti. Cum priuilegio [quod] nullus citra decem annos ea Imprimere ualeat nec alibi impraessa in terras excellentissimo uenetorum dominio subditas uenalia afferre sub poenis in ipso contentis.

"[I]n some copies the word 'possit' is inserted after aferre in the last line of the second colophon on PPp7r."--Walsh.

Median folio. Leaf a2r: 60 lines, plus headline; area of text: 245 (261) x 150 mm. (Number of lines per page varies; GW gives 48-61.) Initial spaces, some with guide letters; spaces for words in non-Roman alphabets. Printed paragraph marks and marginalia. With signatures; many leaves with catchwords. Without foliation. Historiated woodcut border on leaf aAA2r; large and small woodcut initials throughout. Large woodcut printer's device (white on black) on leaf PPp8r; large woodcut printer's device (black on white) on leaf QQq6r. "The Gregori brothers chose as their device a large double cross with a St. Andrew's cross on the staff, flanked by the initials of their forenames, Z (for Zovanni, i.e. Giovanni) and G (for Gregorio)."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 84. Register on leaves PPp7v-PPp8r.

Signatures: volume 1: A⁸ [B]⁶ [C]⁶ a-c⁸ d¹⁰ e⁸ f⁶ g-h¹⁰ i⁸ k⁶ l-u⁸ x-y⁶ ; volume 2: A-R⁸ S¹⁰ T-Z⁸ AA-BB⁸ CC⁶ DD-HH⁸ DDD-EEE⁸ FFF-HHH⁶ DDDD-GGGG⁶ HHHH⁴ II⁸ KK-LL⁶ aa-ff⁸ ll-ss⁸ tt¹⁰ vv-zz⁸ [et][et]¹⁰([et][et]10+chi1) a⁸ b-c⁶ aAA⁸ BBb-NNn⁸ OOo⁶ PPp⁸ QQq⁶, ²AA-BB⁶ (leaves yy8 and aAA1 blanks).

Leaves of gathering [B] in volume 1 signed as follows: [unsigned], 2, 3, [unsigned], [unsigned], [unsigned].

Leaves of gathering [C] in volume 1 signed as follows: 4, 5, 6, [unsigned], [unsigned], [unsigned].

Leaf Q1 in volume 2 signed "q". Occasional errors in signature marks throughout.

Edited by Bernardino Gadolo. See ISTC.

"[D]er Kommentar zum Propheten Amos [ist] zweimal gedruckt, und zwar nach verschiedenen Vorlagen, wie die unterschiedliche Zahl der Marginalien erkennen lässt. Auch zu Abdias sind zwei Kommentare wiedergegeben, der erste (Inc. Idest servi domini … ) scheint bisher unbeachtet geblieben zu sein."--GW.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: volume 1: gatherings A, d, e, wanting; gathering q wanting with a modern blank leaf bound in its place; leaves a1, c2, g1, h3, i1, l1, o3, r3, s1, t1 and u2 wanting with a modern blank leaf bound in the place of each; leaves i3- i4 wanting.

CJS Incunable copy imperfect: volume 2: leaves A5, B7, C5, D4, G1, H2, K1, K3, M6, N6, P5 and BB6 wanting with a modern blank leaf bound in the place of each; leaves D4-D6 wanting with a modern blank leaf bound in their place; all after CC6 wanting.

CJS Incunable copy: volume 1: gathering f bound in out of order after gathering h with a modern blank leaf bound in between them.

CJS Incunable copy: volumes 1-2 bound together as a single volume.

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 329 x 220 mm.

CJS Incunable copy without rubrication.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("ANNENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIBRARY") on front pastedown; circular stamp of the same institution on leaves [B]1r and CC6v.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING") on front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy bound in full modern blue buckram; title, author's name, "volume 1" and imprint place and date stamped in gold on spine; spine ruled in gold at head and tail; decorative endpapers; all edges stippled brown.

Cited in:

Goff H-160

BM 15th cent. V, page 350 (IB.21135)

GW 12419

BSB-Ink. H-259

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2032-2033

ISTC ih00160000

OCLC:

17428972