5. GREGORIUS I. Homiliæ XL super Evangeliis. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer.]
28 August, 1473.

_Fol. 1^a_: Ordo .xl. omeliaru_m_ beati gregorij pape ad secundinu_m_
episcopum Thauronitaru_m_. _Fol. 1^b_: SEQVITVR EPISTOLA
[R]Euerendissimo et sa_n_ctissimo frati secundino coepiscopo.
Gregori_us_ seruus seruoru_m_ dei. _Fol. 2^a_: EXPLICIT EPISTOLA INCIPIT
EWANGELIVM. S. LVCAM.... Omelia prima beati Gregorij pape. _Fol. 141^b_,
COLOPHON: Adeptus est finis amba_rum_ parciu_m_ omelia_rum_ beatissimi
gregorii pape vrbis rome jn die s_an_cti hermetis sub Anno d_omi_ni M
cccc lxxiij. _Fol. 142^a_: _Table of the homilies in the order of the
liturgical year._

Folio. Quires [1-13^{10}, 14^{12}], 142 leaves, 33 lines to the
page, gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination,
place or printer's name. Two- and three-line spaces left for
capitals, which are supplied in red. Paragraph-marks and
initial-strokes in red. Hain *7948, Pellechet 5366. Brit. Mus. 15th
cent., II, p. 319 (IB. 5457).

Gregory's Homilies, of which this is the first edition, and the three
next following works bound with it, are from the press of Günther
Zainer, of Reutlingen, the first printer of Augsburg. All are in the
same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by
the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently
printed at about the same time. He was the first printer in Germany to
make use of roman type, of which the earliest example seems to have been
his "Calendarium pro anno 1472." He died in 1478, ten years after the
appearance of his first dated book.