OPUSCULA (contents lists 72 titles + Life of St.Thomas)

Venice: Hermann Lichtenstein Coloniensis, 1490 7th Sept.. Hardcover. Very Good-. Guide Letters in red and blue + red and blue markers (several hundred) . Quarto (244x175mm) blindstamped pig spined wooden boards with 2 working clasps old,but not original, ink title to spine on 5 raised double cords (repair to foot of spine/ old copper strengthening to lower board insertions of catches/minor worming but not weakening wood or leather) inside of covers are part of a Spanish-Latin word list. 1st leaf has old ownership and neat caligraphic title Plura Opuscula St. Thome. Verso=Tabula listing the titles or all the works (some damage bottom 7 titles) + Leaf 2-12 =Life of which first 5 leaves have repairs to foot of page but with loss to only the recto of the first leaf other paper repairs are marginal only and do not affect any print these leaves signed aa in 12's. The 72 Opuscula take up a-x A-Z AA-HH all in 8's except x & HH in 12's (as listed on Register on last leaf). Some repairs to later pages of index with the last being mounted but only affecting 2 words of the Register leaf. Some worm holes, mostly marginal and some marginal damp marks but the paper is strong and supple. Clean very thick book (436 leaves (872pp) Printed in double columns, 56 lines to a full column in Gothic letters. Collated complete. Reefernmces: Hain-Cop. 1541, BMC V, 358, Proctor 4793, Goff T 258.