The first notice of this edition is found in the Catalogue Bolongaro-Crevenna (Amst., 1789), where it is described as containing 52 printed leaves.  It appears from the price-list printed after the sale in 1790 that it had not been sold, but was “retenu, faute de commissions ou de concurrence,” and was still obtainable at the price of 15 florins.  No trace of it has since been found and Panzer and Hain were able only to copy the catalogue description.  Philippe (1885) described Heynlin’s copy, which is preserved in the library of the University of Basel, as consisting of one first blank leaf, forty-nine printed leaves and two blank leaves at the end.  Claudin (1898), with a second copy discovered meantime in the Bibliotheque d’Angers at his command, finds one first blank and forty-nine printed leaves, and remarks that the two blank leaves placed by Philippe at the beginning [should be end] are only independent fly-leaves.  Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of themselves, form complete quires.  Claudin’s collation, which gives both the quires and a register of the first words of each quire, shows that both his copies lack the sixth quire of our copy, composed like the seventh of only two leaves and beginning “sibus interdixistis.”  There is moreover still unexplained and not easily explainable in the descriptions of both the Basel and Angers copies the presence of a troublesome first blank leaf and the absence of another leaf of text, in addition to the lacking sixth quire.  It follows that, at least until the Crevenna copy, which appears to have been in agreement with ours, comes to light again, this must remain the only complete copy known.

Bound with Nos. 19 and 20, from the same press.

22.  MAGNI, JACOBUS [Jacques Le Grand].  Sophologium.  Paris, Martin
    Crantz, Ulric Gering and Michael Friburger, 1 June, 1477.

Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2^a:  Sequitur tabula capituloru_m_ Sophologij. Fol. 5^a:  Doctissimi atq_ue_ excellentissimi patris:  sacraru_m_ litteraru_m_ doctoris deuotissimi:  fratris Iacobi magni:  religionis fratru_m_ heremitaru_m_:  sancti Augustini sophologiu_m_ incipit.  Cuius p_ri_ncipalis intentio est inducere legentis animu_m_ ad sapientie amorem. Fol. 218^a:  Jacobi Magni sophologium finit feliciter. Fol. 218^b:  Epigramma ad huius operis conspectore_m_ [five distichs.] COLOPHON:  Anno do_mi_ni millesimo .cccc.lxxvij. die .i. mensis Iunij.  Impressum fuit istud sophologium parisius p_er_ Martinu_m_ crantz.  Vdalricu_m_ gering, et Michaele_m_ friburger.

     Quarto.  Sign. a-x^{10}, y^8, 218 leaves, the first blank, 32 lines
     to the page, gothic lower-case type, roman capitals.  Two- to
     six-line spaces with guide-letters left for initials.  Hain 10478.

Border ornamentation in color on fol. 5^a.  Initials at the head of the first four of the ten books in dull gold and color; those of the remaining books in color only.  Chapter initials and paragraph-marks in alternate red and blue.  Blank first leaf wanting.  The bottom line of fol. 116^b which had been accidentally moved across to the foot of fol. 115^a (the companion page on the imposing stone) is supplied in manuscript where it was lacking and the misplaced line of print is canceled.