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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._ 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 Guenther 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 x 8-1/4 in. Mem. on fly-leaf: "Payne's sale. L2
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