The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10-3/4 × 7-1/2 in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. £5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending and binding by Roger Payne £1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."
5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliæ XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Günther 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._
Folio. Quires [1-13^{ 10}, 14^{ 12}], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).
Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three next following works bound with it, are from the press of Günther Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the appearance of his first dated book.
The Wodhull copy, bound by Roger Payne in russia gilt. Leaf 12 × 8-1/4 in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. £2.12.6, binding and restoring 17s.6d. These four pieces were taken out of old monastic binding. M. Wodhull, Jan. 5th, 1795."
6. PSALTERIUM LATINUM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c. 1473.]
_Fol. 1^a_: Prologus beati jeronimi p_re_sbiteri in psalteriu_m_ q_uo_d ipse de hebraico transtulit in latinu_m_ [E]Vsebius jeronim_us_ soffronio suo salutem. _Fol. 1^b_: Explicit p_ro_logus beati jeronimi. Incipit psalterium Psalmos dauid primus. _Fol. 51^a_: Canticu_m_ Ysaie capitulo lxxij (_sic_), _followed by cantica of Hezekiah, Hannah, Moses (2), Habakkuk_. _Fol. 54^a_, COLOPHON: Explicit tra_ns_lacio soli_lo_q_ui_oru_m_ siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii p_resbiteri_ q_uo_d ad peti_ci_one_m_ soffronij tra_n_stulit ut in ep_isto_la_m_ ante psalteriu_m_ imp_re_ssa p_rae_mittit_ur_ _etc._