Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super Psalterium, [Mantua, 1477], nineteenth-century half calf

NICOLAUS DE LYRA

Postilla super Psalterium (cum additionibus Pauli Burgensis et replicationibus Matthiae Doering). [Mantua: Paulus de Butzbach, 1477]

Chancery folio (290 x 195mm.), 247 leaves (of 248, without initial blank), a⁸ â⁸ b⁸ c-f¹⁰ gg⁸ g⁸ h-t¹⁰ u-x⁸ y¹⁰ z⁸ [et]⁶ [1]⁸, double column, 53 lines plus headline, 5- to 11-line initials in red or blue with manuscript guide letters, some with red penwork backgrounds, some yellow initial-strokes, early annotations (some in red ink), nineteenth-century note in English on front flyleaf, early nineteenth-century half calf, small holes in u6-7 with loss of a couple of letters, last leaf becoming detached, rebacked, corners worn

Butzbach printed another edition in the same year which contained a colophon.

LITERATURE:

ISTC in00124000

PROVENANCE:

John Walker, of Chester and Bersham (near Wrexham), name at head of x6-7