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Ff. ii-lix, [v] i.e. 126 pp. (a-h8 [-a1]. Lacking first (title page) leaf. (4to) 19x13 cm. (7½ x5"), modern full blind-stamped pigskin in antique style. Text printed in 2 columns in gothic type, floriated initials, leaf a2 recto printed in red and black, colophon on verso of h3 followed by indexes on unnumbered leaves at the end. Fourth Paris Edition.

Rare post-incunabula edition of the "Dialogues Concerning the Life and Miracles of the Italian Fathers and the Eternity of Souls" by Pope Saint Gregory I (c. 540-604). The "Dialogues" was written in 593, 4 years after Gregory assumed the papacy, and its sometimes extravagant accounts of the lives and miracles of the Italian saints were widely popular reading throughout the middle ages. OCLC locates only 2 copies. Moreau-Renouard 277:82.