Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2^a:  Ex gestis romanor_um_ hystorie no_ta_biles:  de vitijs v_ir_tutibusq_ue_ tracta_n_tes:  cu_m_ applicac_i_onib_us_ moralizatis et misticis:  Incipiunt feliciter. Fol. 160^b, col. 1, COLOPHON:  Ex gestis ro_ma_no_rum_ cu_m_ plurib_u_s applicatis historijs:  de v_ir_tutib_us_ et vitijs mistice ad intellectum tra_n_ssum_p_tis Recollectorij finis est feliciter.  LAVS.  DEO. Fol. 160^b, col. 2:  Incipiu_n_t tituli numerorum om_n_i_u_m capitulo_rum_ et exemplo_rum_. Fol. 163^a:  Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ et capitulo_rum_ op_er_is praecedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. Fol. 170^a:  Explicit tabula. Fol. 170^b, blank.

Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2 columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place, printer’s name or date.  Two- to five-line spaces left for capitals.  One pinhole in side margin, others possibly cut away in binding.  Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.  Brit.  Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).

On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen decoration in red.  Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate red and blue.  Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings underlined in red.  Blank first leaf wanting.

This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.

Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne.  His first dated book was issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the fifteenth century.  Nearly all his books are, like the present, without place, date or printer’s name.  Of the 177 books which he is known to have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.

The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges.  Leaf 10-3/4 x 7-1/2 in.  Mem. on fly-leaf:  “Pateson’s Auction.  L5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending and binding by Roger Payne L1.2s.6d.  M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786.”

5.  GREGORIUS I. Homiliae XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Guenther Zainer.]
    28 August, 1473.

Fol. 1^a:  Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_ episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. Fol. 1^b:  SEQVITVR EPISTOLA [R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.  Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. Fol. 2^a:  EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT EWANGELIVM.  S. LVCAM....  Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. Fol. 141^b, COLOPHON:  Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M cccc lxxiij. Fol. 142^a:  Table of the homilies in the order of the liturgical year.