Title and author from incipit (leaf [1]/3r): Incipit Sophilogiu[m] cuius finis est ama[r]e scie[n]cias. Illustrissimi principis regis francoru[m]...Capellanus frater Jacobus magni ordinis fratru[m] heremitarum sancti augustini.
Printed in type 1:98G attributed to Schilling.
The press, identified as Schilling's and formerly located at Cologne as Printer of Albertus Magnus 'De virtutibus', is reassigned by Dalbanne and Droz to Schilling's Basel press; see also Needham, Ars impressoria, pp. 126-27 (ISTC).
The AmBML copy has a buyer's note dated Michaelmas 1473, and one of the Würzburg copies and a Freiburg copy have owner's notes dated 1473 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-16¹⁰ 17⁸]: 168 leaves, leaf [17]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Author also referred to as Jacobus Magni.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 20.3 cm, trimmed.
Sophologium
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, headlines and marginal section titles, foliation, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Marginal notations in multiple hands, fifteenth-seventeenth century. Manuscript contents list, seventeenth century (leaf [17]/8r-v).