A compilation containing excerpts from the Epistles and the Gospels, in Latin, each followed by a commentary (homily), serving as a helpful guide for teachers and priests, the latter often using it as a foundation for their sermons. It arranges the excerpts as readings following the liturgical calendar, beginning with the first Sunday of Advent, and priests regularly read them during Sunday and holiday church services throughout the year. The commentaries make the book especially valuable for understanding how the greater public understood these parts of the scriptures. Günther Zainer in Augsburg published the first edition, dated ca. 1472 in the ISTC, but probably published in 1473 (see below). It went through more than 100 editions to ca. 1500, mostly in France and the German-speaking states, but also with a few in the Low Countries and even five in Spain, Portugal and Italy, showing the works popularity (several printers produced multiple editions): a bestseller of the incunable period.
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With several contemporary manuscript notes With some minor scratches, scuffs and scrapes on the boards and spine. Otherwise in very good condition and nearly untrimmed, with tranchefiles in most leaves and occasionally part of a deckle on the fore-edge. Bod-inc G326; Borm Incunabula Guelferbytana 1263; BSB-Ink H-151; Finger: Düsseldorf 501-504; Goff G662; Goff, "The Postilla of Guillermus Parisiensis", in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1959, pp. 73-77, item 23; GW 11981; Hain 8246; Hartig: Paderborn 309-310; IDL 2184; ISTC ig00662000; Langer, "Von der Mora und deren Jahrzahl in der Postilla des Guillermus Parisiensis", in: Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1971, pp. 82-90, at p. 86; Pell 5635; Polain CBB Suppl 4406; Šimáková-Vrchotka 894; VK 532; Voulliéme 692; cf. BMC I, p. 196 (1482 Zell ed.).