Title and imprint from ISTC.
Ascribed to Amerbach by A. Hartmann (Amerbach-korrespondenz (1942), I, 2 n.2). The printing, however, seems to have been done by Rusch at Strasbourg with types borrowed from Amerbach, see F. Geldner in Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 23 (1982), cols 684-88.
GW dated shortly after 23 Sept. 1481 but manuscript notes in the Sion College copy and in Oates 124 are dated 1480.
Printed in Rusch's types 1:180G, 2:106G, 3:92G, and 4:68G.
Signatures, vol. I): a¹⁰ 9xb⁸ 5xd⁸ d⁶ d¹⁰; a⁸ 9xd⁸ 3xb⁸ 2xb⁶; vol. II): a⁸ 14xc⁸ c¹⁰ 3xh⁸ c⁶ h⁶ h⁸ 2xh⁶ h⁸ c⁸ 2xc⁶ c⁸ c⁶ 10xe⁸ e¹⁰ e⁸; vol. III): 5xb⁸ b⁶ 2xb⁸ b¹⁰ 11xg⁸ 2xg⁶ g¹⁰ 4xd⁸ d⁶ 2xe⁶; 2xa⁸ 5xc⁸ 2xc⁶ a⁸ d⁸ 3xa⁸; vol. IV): 12xf⁸ f⁶ f⁸(+f2) b⁸ b⁶ b¹⁰ 8xa⁸ 2xa⁶ a⁸ a⁶ a-c⁸ 4xa⁸ a¹⁰: 1211 leaves, final leaves a9-10 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
The quire signatures, in multiple sequences of the first seven letters of the alphabet, are perhaps early press figures (BMC).
For variants see CIBN B-427.
On the authorship of the Glossa Ordinaria see B. Smalley, The study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, ed. 3, Oxford, 1983, pp. x, 56-60.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 47.5 x 32.5 cm. NNPM
Vols. I, II, and IV hand decoration: with contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes and underlining; primary initial with penwork decoration including jingle-bell motifs and heart pierced by an arrow (vol. I, leaf a1r). NNPM
Vol. III hand decoration: with contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes; primary initials with red/blue/green penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text, throughout all volumes.