Bearer type (leaf [1]/3r), partially inked and printed in PML copy.
Chancery folio
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7⁸(+7*: arbaitten.); 8-14¹⁰; 15-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20⁶]: 193 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Die vier letzten Dinge is also found as a separate imprint, see GW 7517.
First colophon (leaf [14]/10v): Hÿe hatt ain end das půch genant dÿalogus. sancti Gregorÿ pape. Und das ward gedruckt da ma[n] zalt nach cristi gepurd .M.cccc.lxxiii. jar.
On the location of printing, see note in BMC II 332 and Wilhelm Wittwer, "Catalogus Abbatum monasterii SS. Udalrici et Afrae Augustensis," edited by Anton Steichele, Archiv für die Geschichte des Bistums Augsburg 3 (1860), pp. 265-266.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20 cm
PML copy with backing on leaf [20]/6.
Printed in Bämler's type 2:138G.
Second colophon (leaf [20]/6r): Expliciunt exce[r]pta de tractatus quatuor. novissimorum. Anno .M.cccc.lxxiii.jar.
The Cordiale is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Hie facht an das büch der heÿlig vatt[er] und bapst sa[n]ctus Gregorius selbs gemacht hat vo[n] den heÿligen die beÿseÿne[n] zeÿten und dar vor gewesen sind inwelschen landen und vo[n] iren wunderzaichen und sind gar vil schöner exempel und haisset das bůch in latein liber dÿalogorum das ist zů teütsch so vil als das bůch der zwaÿer red mit ainander.
Woodcut frontispiece of Pope Gregory and Petrus diaconus.
Dÿalogus
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (large incipit lombards unrealized), paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Some late-16th century marginal notes, mainly in additional tracts, e.g. the "wunderzaichen" in the Speculum mundi are labeled "lügen".