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Feb. 1989
LA. Book Fair
The Jenkins Co. Austin, Texas.
$35.00
Gregorius I, (Gregorius Magorus) Saint (c. 540-604) Pope from 590.
Moralia, sive Expositio in Job.
See #400 #321 Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rambold, -died after 1519 31 Oct.
1495. folio
Ref: Goff GH31 HC7932 BMC VIII 29
Cop: Col UL, New L.
York Cathedrel L. CAPI. III. LIBER. IIII.
382 leaves, 346+382 blank. 2 col. 50 lines + headline.
205(213)x137mm (with marginalia 169mm) Types 190 G.,
1st line of title, headlines + headings in 2nd + 3rd tables;
110G remainder of title; 82 G, text; 100R (capitals only)
hadlines (chapter - + book numbers) + section numbers
in body of book; 80 R text of 2nd + 3rd tables
Capital spaces, with guide letters.
82 G - small clear text type in the Venetian style.
Mistou large, N noticably small.
190G - black title type in the German style.
In use in + after 1494.
U. Gening resumed regular printing with B. Rembolt (a native of Strassburg)
as his partner on 8 May 1494 + continues to do so
until the end of the century. He transferred his sign
of the Golden Sun from the rue St. Jacque to the
rue de Sorbonne abou the turn of the yrear 1483-4.
An interesting feature of this leaf is its very early use
of printing indexes in the margins to indicate important
passages or to explain marginal glosses. While incunables
are often found with index figures drawn in the
margins by contemporary readers, early printers
seemed hesitant to chitter their margins with printed
versions.
Great Dark Age Christian classic. Regarded as Gregory's
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