563J Thomas Aquinas

Quaestiones junta doctrina circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae.

[Rome : Johann Besicken, about 1493-94]. Collijn assigns this to Guldinbeck. PRICE $4,500

Octavo 19 x 13.5 cm Signatures : a8 Fol. 8 blank and present. Old bibliographies assigned this to Plannck, later revised to Besicken.  Bound in later quarter vellum. Institutional stamp and numbers on the first leaf. With the bookplate of the Library of the college of New Rochell the gift of James Edward Tobin. with call numbers in pencil and number in pen and debased stamp on the title. 

VERY RARE ISTC cites only 9 copies; 1 in the US at Yale. 

“Quaestiones circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae” translates to “Questions regarding confession or the Sacrament of Penance” in Latin, This text is extracted from the Summa Theologica where St. Thomas discusses various aspects of the Catholic sacrament of confession, including its nature, necessity, and proper practice.

Besicken worked at Basel in 1483, and at Rome from 1493 until 1510, partly with various partners. Most of the woodcut capitals employed by Besicken and his partners are black ground capitals some with foliage decorations and others with branch-work; all enclosed in a frame line which form squares in the corners. The present incunable has such an example on a1. His imprints are generally rare. 

Reference works.  Goff T325; R 395; Mich 341; IBE 1729; IGI 3151; IBP 1681; SI 3781; Coll(S) 1410; Martín Abad T-106; Borm 810; GW 7350

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