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GUIDO DE MONTE ROCHEN (fl. 1331). Manipulus curatorum [Lyons: Nicholaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart, ca 1477-78]. 4 o (207 x 146mm.) Collation : [1-18 8 ]. 142 leaves (of 144; without first and last leaves, very probably blanks). 35 lines, double column. Gothic type 3:92. Capital spaces. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in orange-red ink. (Early owner's inkstamp on four pages, small wormholes in margin of first few leaves, blank lower corner of [15/1] torn away). Early 18th century speckled calf, edges stained red (worn, rebacked.) Provenance : J. Richard D.M. (armorial stamp at front and back) -- W.H.H. Newman of Buffalo (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941. ONE OF ONLY TWO KNOWN COPIES of this early Lyons edition of a very popular manual for parish priests. The edition was ascribed on the basis of an unusual letter m in the type, believed to have been in use in 1478 or before by Philippi (Pistoris) and Reinhart, German partners who constitute the second Lyonese press. In partnertship they are believed to have printed their first book (Ferrariis Practica nova juris ) in 1477 and remained active until 1482 at which point it appears Reinhart severed his connection with the shop (he was printing at Kircheim in Alsace in 1490). The only other recorded copy of the edition is in the Bibliothéque de Beune (Inc. 162). Not in Hain, Copinger, BMC, GW, BSB Ink. Pell Ms 5513 (5512) Goff G-757.