TURRECREMATA, Johannes De [Juan de TORQUEMADA] [1388-1468].

Expositio Super Psalterio.

      [Colophon:] Rome: Wolf Han (Lupus Gallus), 21 February 1476. - 4to. 240 x 153 mm. [ff. 204, including the final register leaf]. 33 lines. roman type. initials, underlines & some paragraph marks supplied in red, other paragraph marks stroked in red. 8-line initial spaces on folios 1 & 3 left empty except for small letters written in ink in later hand. modern limp vellum (some leaves browned owing to the quality of the paper - a few severely, ownership inscription crossed out on). a few old marginal ms. notes. page book-label of F.S.Ferguson. ex libris Solomon Pottesman. the Bergendal copy. THE ONLY KNOWN SIGNED AND DATED BOOK FROM PRESS OF WOLF HAN. IN 1475 ULRICH HAN SET UP HIS BROTHER WITH TWO FOUNTS TYPE, WHICH HE REPRINTED, ALMOST PAGE FOR PAGE, ULRICH'S ROME 1470 FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS BY THE FAMOUS CARDINAL AND UNCLE OF THE SPANISH GRAND INQUISITOR TOMÁS DE TORQUEMADA. FIVE OTHER, UNSIGNED, BOOKS ARE TRANSFERRED TO WOLF IN THE BMC ON ACCOUNT OF A FURTHER ADMIXTURE OF GOTHIC MAJUSCULES IN THE ROMAN TEXT TYPE, THIS NOT BEING FOUND IN BOOKS SIGNED BY ULRICH. BMC IV 74. GOFF T-521. HAIN-COPINGER 15700. OATES 1437. PROCTOR 3605. [Attributes: Hard Cover]