Incipit horologium aeternae sapientiae

Date and imprint from colphon (m5): Explicit horologium eterne sapientie Colonie per me Iohannem Landen infra sexdecim domos [con]mora[n]te[m] impresses atq[ue] diligenter correctum. Anno Domini M.cccc.xcvi, mensis Septembris, die vero Nono Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ d⁴ e⁶ f⁴ g⁶ h⁴ i-m⁶ (m6=blank). Chancery quarto; 45 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries Incunabula short title catalogue Cataloged Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century olive goatskin tooled in gilt, rebacked in brown goatskin. Bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund and label of Thomas Connolly, Dublin (bookseller) on front pastedown. "Bibliotheca Conoviana" tooled in gilt on upper turn-in. Titlepage woodcut with early/contemporary colors and unidentified coat of arms at center. Early/contemporary Latin inscription and horological diagram on title page. Rubricated in red. Early marginalia throughout. Final leaf (m8=blank) wanting. Leaf dimensions: 174 x 127 mm. Purchased in Dec. 1942.