_Fol. 163^a_: Tabula o_mn_i_u_m exe_m_plo_rum_ _et_ capitulo_rum_
op_er_is præcedentis. sec_un_d_u_m ordine_m_ alphabeti. _Fol. 170^a_:
Explicit tabula. _Fol. 170^b, blank._

Folio. 170 leaves in seventeen quires of ten leaves each, 2
columns, 36 lines to the column, gothic letter, without signatures,
catchwords, pagination, place, printer's name or date. Two- to
five-line spaces left for capitals. One pinhole in side margin,
others possibly cut away in binding. Hain 7734, Pellechet 5247.
Brit. Mus. 15th cent., I, p. 196 (IB. 2994).

On fol. 2^a and 163^a five-line initials in blue with graceful pen
decoration in red. Initials of chapters and morals supplied in alternate
red and blue. Paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red; headings
underlined in red. Blank first leaf wanting.

This edition of the Gesta contains 181 chapters and appears to have been
preceded only by another undated edition printed at Utrecht by Ketelaer
and Leempt, in long lines, with 152 chapters and no index.

Ulrich Zell was the first printer of Cologne. His first dated book was
issued in 1466 and he continued to print quite up to the close of the
fifteenth century. Nearly all his books are, like the present, without
place, date or printer's name. Of the 177 books which he is known to
have printed, the British Museum possesses 123.

The Wodhull copy, bound in russia, gilt edges. Leaf 10-3/4 × 7-1/2 in.
Mem. on fly-leaf: "Pateson's Auction. £5.5s; washing, cleaning, mending
and binding by Roger Payne £1.2s.6d. M. Wodhull, May 25th, 1786."