[INCUNABLES]. GREGORY I, POPE (540-604). Moralia sive exposito in Job. [Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ]. Folio. 361 of 364 leaves, complete except for three blanks (iii6, a1, HH8), which have been excised. Text in double columns, rubricated throughout in red and blue. The decorative two-line title is from a woodcut. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over oak boards. Covers with ornate panels and floral borders. With the original engraved brass bosses on corners of both covers and in centers of both covers. Brass catches, but lacking the fore-edge clasps. Spine with four ruled raised bands Contemporary ink manuscript notes on front pastedown, occasional contemporary ink marginalia. Remains of a medieval vellum manuscript leaf, used as binder's waste, in front and back. SEVENTH INCUNABLE EDITION.

Boards toned, somewhat worn with some holes and splits. Occasional dampstaining and other staining, especially near the end. Pin hole worming, moderate at front and back sections, but mostly absent in the middle, touching text, but with no loss of legibility. A good and interesting copy, well-suited to teaching purposes, being in its original binding, with most of its original brass fittings, with text marginalia, and with the binder's waste evidence.