1. 553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven.  Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. one copy Bryn Mawr 2. 453J. Diogenes Lærtius.Historiographi de philosophorum vita. one copy Harvard Radcliffe- Schlesinger Library. 3. 658J Eusebius. Epistola de morte Hieronymi . two copies. Walters Library & Huntington Library 4. 448J Gruytrode. Lavacrum conciencie. two copies. Library of Congress &Univ. of California 5. 305J Pelbartus de Themeswar . No Us or UK copies 6. 238J Peregrinus of Opole. Two US copies both Defective. Harvard (- ff 189-278) Bryn Mawr College, (ff 239-278). 7. 563J St Thomas Quaestiones junta doctrina. One copy Yale.

A Sammelband of Devotio moderna.

553Ji. Gérard de Vliederhoven   &   553Jii  Guido de Monte Rochen.                                    

 Cordiale quattuor novissimorum.  (Memorare nouissima tua.)

Köln, Konrad Winters, de Homborch, about 1482.                                                                                                        Price $8,000

Quarto  22 x15 ½ cm. signatures : a–f⁸g-h⁶ i⁸  [68 leaves].  Two works bound  in one. I. Heavily browned, some old annotations, first leaves somewhat loose. Annotation, monastic ownership inscription and stamp to first blank. II. Browned, slight worming to last leaves. Annotations to first leaf, monastic stamp to title and last leaf. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind stamped dark calf rubbed, some worming, tear to spine, head of spine repaired, rebacked preserving original spine, lacking clasp.

Gérard de Vliederhoven who was active 14th century, confessor and curator of the Commandery Teutonic of Utrecht , and mystical writer at the turn of XIV and XVth  centuries. With his colleague Johann van der Sande, brother cellar, he showed constant loyalty to Commander Gerhard Splinter Uten Enghe, when from 1380 the latter tried to restore discipline within the Order. We do not know anything about the origins and life of Gérard, although like Denys the Carthusian , he is one of the main representatives of edifying literature of his century. His treatise Quartet novissima examines the four terms of Christian life, namely Death, Judgment of souls, Hell and Heaven. Very widely distributed from the beginning of the 15th century under the title of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum or, more briefly, the Cordiale , it shows how the attention paid to these four terms allows the faithful to guard against sins. 

This work has had a profound influence on the eschatological thought of the followers of the Devotio moderna . Several monasteries instituted the common reading of the Cordiale and we know from the chronicler Jean Busch that it was read at the abbey of Windesheim during meals. Jean Miélottranslated it into French under the title Les quattres things derrenieres .

1. Goff C888; [ United States one copy located, Bryn Mawr College] ; Cop. 1772; GW 7478; BMC I, 249;  Voulliéme, Köln 452. 

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ic00888000

Holdings
BelgiumLeuven, KUL FG Coll.S.J.
DenmarkKøbenhavn, Det Kgl. Bibliotek
GermanyBerlin, Staatsbibliothek
Dettelbach FranziskKl
Erfurt, Bistumsarchiv
Köln, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek (copy lost)
Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek (2, 1 imperfect)
PolandLublin, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelsi Jana Pawla II
Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka
SlovakiaMartin, Slovak National Library (Inc C 33/prív.2)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandLondon, British Library (IA.4155)
United States of America Bryn Mawr PA, Bryn Mawr College, Canaday Library
Number of holding institutions13

  Bound with           553Jii Guido de Monte Rochen.

 Manipulus curatorum. (Manipulus curatoꝛū. officia ſacerdotu ſcdʾm oꝛdinē ſeptē ſacramētoꝝperbꝛeuiter plectēs.) 

Straßburg, Martin Flach 10. Mai, 1487. 

Signatures . a–o⁸p¹⁰ 121 leaves, Bound with the above.   Guido de Monte Rochen or Guy de Montrocher was a Spanish priest and jurist who was active around 1331. He is best known as the author of Manipulus curatorum (the manual of the curate), this is a handbook for parish priests, probably first written in the first half of the fourteenth century it was often copied, with some 180 complete or partial manuscripts surviving, and later reprinted throughout Europe in the next 200 years. 

First printed in 1473, with at least 119 printings, and sales which have been estimated to be three times those of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica.(Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History …edited by Robert James Bast, Andrew Colin Gow, Heiko Augustinus Oberman) It became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the Roman Catechism in 1566.

On the Verso of the first blank and verso of the last leaf of the Cordiale(553Ji.) leaf a¹ and leaf  i⁸v there are a lot of very nice (and easily visible ) impressions of un inked large capitals used for bearer type.

–II. Goff G593.; Hain-C.-R. 8194; GW 11815; BMC I, 147; Katharine Lualdi & Anne Thayer (2007) Guido de Monte Rochen’s Manipulus Curatorum, Medieval Sermon Studies, 51:1, 80, DOI: 10.1179/136606907X216995

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ig00593000

United States of America:

San Francisco CA, California State Library, Sutro Library
San Marino CA, Huntington Library
Stanford CA, Stanford University, Green Library
University Park PA, Pennsylvania State University, Eberly Family Special Collections Library
Williamstown MA, Williams College, Chapin Library

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2) 453J Diogenes Lærtius , (Tr: Ambrosius Traversarius 1386-1439.)

Diogenis lærtii historiographi de philosophorum vita decem per q[uam] fecundi libri ad bene beateq[ue] viuendu[m] co[m]motiui. 

Paris : Guy or  Jean Marchant, for Jean Petit, [about 1509]. {Venundantur Parisius in vico Diui Iacobi apud Leonem Argenteum. :             Price:  $3,600

Quarto. 20 x 14.5 cm. Signatures: A⁸, a-y^8/4, z⁶ .Portrait of a weary philosopher at his writing table on verso of title page.(see back cover of this catalogue.  Charming woodcut on last page (Marchant’s device). Some nice woodcut initials. Marginal annotations and underlinings. Wormholes. Modern binding in ¾ calf, marbled boards, marbles end leaves. With the  Ex libris of Jos Nève.   Lærtius divides all the Greek philosophers into two classes: those of the Ionic and those of the Italic school. He derives the first from Anaximander, the second from Pythagoras. After Socrates, he divides the Ionian philosophers into three branches: (a) Plato and the Academics, down to Clitomachus; (b) the Cynics, down to Chrysippus; (c) Aristotle and Theophrastus. The series of Italic philosophers consists, after Pythagoras, of the following: Telanges, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Leucippus, Democritus, and others down to Epicurus. The first seven books are devoted to the Ionic philosophers; the last three treat the Italic school.

The work of Diogenes is a crude contribution towards the history of philosophy. It contains a brief account of the lives, doctrines, and sayings of most persons who have been called philosophers; and though the author is limited in his philosophical abilities and assessment of the various schools, the book is valuable as a collection of facts, which we could not have learned from any other source, and is entertaining as a sort of pot-pourri on the subject. Diogenes also includes samples of his own wretched poetry about the philosophers he discusses.

Diogenes is generally as reliable as whatever source he happens to be copying from at that moment. Especially when Diogenes is setting down amusing or scandalous stories about the lives and deaths of various philosophers which are supposed to serve as fitting illustrations of their thought, the reader should be wary. The article on Epicurus, however, is quite valuable, since it contains some original letters of that philosopher, which comprise a summary of the Epicurean doctrines. IEP

https://data.cerl.org/istc/id00226000         GW VII Sp.436a

Goff D226; H 6197?; Moreau ICP vol I p.317 nº68; Günt(L) 2256; Walsh 3631b; BMC(Fr) p.135;  BM STC (F) S. 135; Renouard (M) Iehan Petit 833;  Renouard (M) Jean Marchant 708) 

§ Jean Petit’s 4th device on t.p.; Guy Marchant’s device (Silvestre 39) IA,; 153.795;).

Holdings
AustriaKlagenfurt, Archiv der Diözese Gurk, Bischöfliche Gurker Mensalbibliothek
FranceMoulins, Médiathèque Samuel Paty
Orléans, La Médiathèque
Poitiers, Médiathèque François Mitterrand
GermanyDarmstadt, Universitäts und Landesbibliothek (Inc-II-205)
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek
München, Universitätsbibliothek (4 Inc.lat. 983)
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (2)
HungaryPannonhalma, Főapátsági Könyvtár / Bibliotheca Archiabbatiae Ordinis S. Benedicti de Sacro Monte Pannoniae
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandLondon, British Library (9039.e.16(3))
United States of AmericaCambridge, MA, Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Schlesinger Library
Number of holding institutions. 11

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658J. Eusebius – Only Two copies in the US

(La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi).

[Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487].               $7,000

Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i⁸. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label “Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487”

This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386.,

ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*;

GW 9466]. 

 United States:

Walters Library & Huntington Library. ONLY

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00257000

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448J Jacobus de Gruytrode

Lavacrum conciencie [sic] omnibus sacerdotibus perutile

Lyptzck [Leipzig] : Gregor Böttiger, [Werman] , 1495. Price $12,000 

Quarto  12 x 9 cm. Signatures: a⁸ b-p⁶ q⁸.[Errors in foliation: lxxxviiii-xcviii foliated xc-xcviiii, with xc as cxi, xciiii as cxv] Blank initial spaces. Bound in half leather of the 19th century, with quite a bit contemporary marginalia on almost every page has an note from leaf I-Lxxxv 

 ISTC il00099000 Goff L99; IBP 3382; Madsen 2157; Voull(B) 1383; Günt(L) 1205; Hubay(Würzburg) 1187; Pad-Ink 375; Wilhelmi 387; BSB-Ink L-71.050; GW 13880. Not in Hain, BMC, STC et c.

https://data.cerl.org/istc/il00099000

Copies; United States of America : 1) Library of Congress 2) Univ. of California, Law Library.

Theodor Petreius, Bibliotheca Cartusiana (Cologne, 1609), identifies the actual author as Johannes Meskirchius (Messkirch, d. 1511), a monk at the charterhouse of Güterstein near Stuttgart 

(for Messkirch see R. Deigendesch, ‘Bücher und ihre Schenker – Die Bücherlisten der Kartause Güterstein in Württemberg’, in S. Lorenz, ed., Bücher, Bibliotheken und Schriftkultur der Kartäuser. Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 93–115).

This “Soap of the Conscience” is filled with morally instructive stories intended to keep priests faithful to their vows and safe from worldly temptations, lest they suffer the “harshest punishments” of hell. In this work he tries in numerous moral and instructive stories to prove the nullity of worldly joys. Born in Gruitrode ca. 1400-10, Jacobus van Eertwach was a Carthusian monk who served as an abbot of the prior of the Liege from 1440 until his death in 1475, during which time he produced numerous works of spiritual guidance for both clergy and laypersons. 
This treatise against immorality, especially the priests, which was first printed by Anton Sorg in 1489. This work also includes short stories and some German proverbs translated into latin.

Although today the work is generally attributed to the Carthusian monk of German origin.

Signs of Usage:

There are written notes and abbreviations through out the book (almost every page), a handful of manicules, and a few signs which look like “( ( ” or rather two backward ‘c’. The ownership on the top of the title page is un -decipherable to me.

R. Deigendesch, ‘Bücher und ihre Schenker – Die Bücherlisten der Kartause Güterstein in Württemberg’, in S. Lorenz, ed., Bücher, Bibliotheken und Schriftkultur der Kartäuser. Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 93–115

Bloomfield, M. Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices: 1100-1500 A.D., Cambridge, 1979. 

Although today the work is generally attributed to the Carthusian monk of German origin, Jacob von Gruytrode.    According to Theodor Petreius, Bibliotheca Cartusiana (Cologne, 1609), the actual author is Johannes Meskirchius  (Messkirch, d. 1511), a monk at the charterhouse of Güterstein near Stuttgart (for Messkirch see R. Deigendesch, ‘Bücher und ihre Schenker – Die Bücherlisten der Kartause Güterstein in Württemberg’, in S. Lorenz, ed., Bücher, Bibliotheken und Schriftkultur der Kartäuser. Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Edward Potkowski, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 93-115.

BMC assigns authorship to Jacobus de Gruytrode  ISTC il00099000

Goff L99; IBP 3382; Madsen 2157; Voull(B) 1383; Günt(L) 1205;Hubay(Würzburg) 1187; Pad-Ink 375; Wilhelmi 387; BSB-Ink L-71.050; GW 13880. Not in Hain, BMC, STC et c. Günther, estampes de berceau d. Collection de Leipzig 1205. 

https://data.cerl.org/istc/il00099000

Copies; United States of America     1) Library of Congress 2) Univ. of California, Law Library.

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Pelbartus de Themeswar No US Copy (not in Goff) No UK

Beside being quite rare, it has extensive and mostly complete provenance, a contemporary binding with a blind stamped title, rubrication. 

305J Pelbartus de Themeswar   (1430-1504)

Sermones Pomerii fratris Pelbarti de Themeswar diui ordinis sancti Francisci de Sanctis: Jncipiunt feliciter.

Hagenau(Augsburg): Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 30 September, 1501. [imp[re]ssi … p[er] industriu[m] Henricu[m] Gran i[n] imp[eri]ali oppido Hagenaw: expe[n]sis ac su[m]ptib[us] p[ro]uidi Joha[n]nis Rynman Finiu[n]t feliciter: Anno … millesimoq[ui]nge[n]tesimoprimo. vltimo die Septe[m]bris]     $6,000

Folio 12 x 8 inches  Probably about the fourth edition. ( the listings for this book are all pretty sloppy  despite Gran’s placing the exact dates in the colophon:20 feb 1499, 10 November 1499, 8 June 1500,

COLLATION:Completely unpaginated throughout, Signatures: pi⁶ [chi]⁶ a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸ i⁶ k-l⁸ m⁶ n-o⁸ p⁶q-s⁸ t⁶ v-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸ A⁸ B⁶ C-D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸H⁶ I-K⁸ L⁶ M-N⁸ O⁶P-Q⁸ R⁶ S-T⁸ U⁶ X-Y⁸ Z⁶ [&]⁸  leaves 12 and 358 blank .  ( 13, 357  ff. )                                                             TYPE: two columns, 58 lines per page plus headline, gothic letter, with guide letters and spaces for numerous four and six line ornamental capitals, contemporaneously hand rubricated in red ink throughout.

This copy is bound  contemporary blind-stamped leather over wooden boards from an Augsburg workshop operating between 1482 and 1532 (Kyriss 79). Front board panelled with two blind rolls, one formed of arches, the other of  birds and flowers, panel filled with further use of bird and flower blind roll and surmounted by blind-lettered title “POMERIUS*S”.  Rear board panelled with same bird and flower blind roll, panel infilled with diagonally crossing blind fillets. There is  Early monastic ink title to fore-edge and ink inscription to front free endpaper, nineteenth century ink inscription to front pastedown, wormholes to opening and closing leaves, a couple of unobtrusive wormholes extending into first few quires touching a few letters, corners of two leaves torn well clear of text, leaf A8 soiled at edges and possibly supplied from another copy, occasional very light paper browning otherwise internally clean. Binding worn with minor chips and losses, rebacked, upper edge of rear board damaged exposing wood beneath (not affecting blind rolls), remains of hasps and clasps, light marks to centre of each board where central brass bosses were once affixed.

The Bavarian binding and inscription to its front free endpaper indicate very early acquisition by the medieval 1) Benedictine Monastery of the Abbey of Irsee, Bavaria. Upon the dissolution of Bavarian monasteries in 1803 the volume was acquired by 2) Munich Court Library; a nineteenth century ink inscription to the front pastedown notes the copy to have been a duplicate and it was doubtless sold between 1815 and 1859 when the library instigated a series of large auctions to dispose of surplus items. Sometime after 1880 it was acquired by the 3) Benedictine monastery of Erdington Abbey, Birmingham, England, established for monks expelled in Bismarck’s kultur-kampf from Beuron, Prussia. In 1922 the Erdington monastery was dissolved following return of its monks to Beuron after World War I, and its library appears to have been subsequently disbursed.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: Included in the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ISTC ip00252500, citing holdings at 15 locations globally with none in the US or UK; Hain 12557 (describing an imperfect copy). An attractive copy of this rare early work in entirely original state with substantial provenance.

Fourth or so  edition of this collection of sermons by Pelbartus de Themesvar, Hungarian Franciscan at the St.John Monastery in Buda. The popular text was first published in 1499 He was born in 1430 in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timişoara, Romania). In 1458 he went to the University of Kraków. In 1463 he was licensed in Theology. Possibly in 1471 he left Kraków as a doctor, then in 1483 he is mentioned in the Franciscan Community Annales of St. John Monastery in Buda, the Hungarian Capital city. After 1483 his writings began to be published in print. The first printed edition of his Sermons dates from 1498. In 1503 a printed version of his lecture notes was published. Pelbartus died on 9 January 1504 in Buda, as a highly distinguished author and professor. Hungarian versions of his writings in manuscript date from 1510.

ISTC No.ip00252500; Hain 12557*; VD16 P1165; Sajó-Soltész p. 767; Günt(L) p.65; Wilhelmi 479a; GW M30525.   https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M30525.htm

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00252500

Holdings

AustriaGraz, FranziskanerZB (imperfect)
Scheibbs, Kapuziner
Schwaz, Franziskaner (Ink U1/1-02) EstoniaTallinn Arch      GermanyBerlin, Staatsbibliothek (3)
Gotha ForschLB
Greifswald GeistlMin
Leipzig UB
Mainz GM/StB (2, Ink.1107,2553)
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
München MetropolitanKap (I117/1a)
München UB
Rostock UB
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek                    HungaryBudapest Bibl nat 

Number of holding institutions 15

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238J Peregrinus of Opole (1305-1327) Jacobus de Voragine (1229-1298) & Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl (1360-1433)

Peregrinus: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Add: Jacobus de Voragine: Quadragesimale. Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel: Concordantia in passionem dominicam. Est autem huius operis ordo talis. Primo ponuntur sermones d[omi]nicales de tempore per anni circulu[m]. Secundo de sanctis, Tercio q[ua]dragesimale Jacobi de Foragine, Q[ua]rto concordantia quatuor euangelista[rum] in passiiones d[omi]nicam a magistro Nicolao Dinckelspubell collectam.”/ At end of leaf m8: “Sermones Peregrini de tempore finiunt.

[Ulm: Johann Zainer, not after 1479] (A copy now in Munich BSB has an ownership inscription dated 1479)   Price $11,000. 

Folio 27 x 20 cm.  “Pars I (188): a-d⁸, e-k⁸/⁶, l-m⁸, A-C⁸, D-I^8/6, K-N⁸; (N⁸ blank and removed) “Pars II (50.): a-f⁸/⁶, g⁸;” 3.”Pars III (40.): A-E⁸/ [276 (instead of 278)    The two blank leaves are missing. 162 & 188.  Rubicated throughout. Bound in Calf over wooden boards, with catches With typical blind stated vines as seem on many Zainer books,rebacked back restored using old material, cover covers rubbed and with small missing parts). I have located only two U.S.copies both defective.   Like many of Zainer’s books it has quite a few in manufacturing faults which are evidence of how the book was made, which are explored in Claire Bolton’s book The fifteenth-century printing practices of Johann Zainer,Ulm. 1473-1478 among the are: Drag marks from inked letters, Poor register, frayed edge on cloth impression marks, corse thread weave cloth impressions This copy has very interesting Provenance.

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, was a Silesian Dominican friar, Prior in Wrocław and Racibórz and Provincial of the Polish-East German Order. 

He was twice elected a provincial of his Order and became designated an inquisitor of Wrocław by the pope John XXII. His major literary achievement is this twofold collection of Latin sermons: Sermones de tempore (sermons on the feasts of the liturgical year) and Sermones de sanctis (sermons on feasts of particular saints). “Peregrinus of Oppeln was Prior of the Polish Dominican province (1305-12 &1322-27). His sermon sequences for the temporal and sanctoral liturgical cycles circulated widely in Germany and eastern Europe. 

 Jacobus de Voragine wrote several series of sermons, The Lenten sermons (Quadragesimale) were written between 1277 and 1286. These sermons were only slightly less popular than his “Legend,” and also known as ‘Golden’ on account of their popularity (there are more than 300 known manuscript copies). The genre of the Sermones quadragesimale did not exist as a distinct genre before the 1260’s This Dominican best-seller author Jacopo da Voragine, and the works of preachers from his own generation, like Peregrinus von Opeln [See above] have a strong sermo modernus structure and contain numerous exempla drawn from the world of nature.

¶Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuel. Magister in 1390, BUT The ascription of the Concordantia to Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl (c 1360-1433) is mistaken. Although he is known as the author of a passion story ( Collecta et praedicata de passione Christi. 1472). he did not produce a concordance to it, But he is in fact listed as one of the authors cited in the work. (See A Madre, Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl, Leben und Schriften, 1965, p 310.)

Only two North American copies, both defective.
Harvard University (- ff 189-278)
Bryn Mawr College, (ff 239-278)

Goff P267; HC 12581*; C 4407; IGI 7404; IBP 4241; Madsen 3083; Voull(B) 2629,5; Hubay(Augsburg) 1582; Hubay(Eichstätt) 794; Borm 2059; Walsh 909; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1340; BMC II 529; BSB-Ink P-183; GW M30917 – Wegener, Zainer 9 – BSB-Ink P-183 – Proctor 2542 ISTC ip00267000.

https://data.cerl.org/istc/ip00267000

Claire Bolton’s The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473–1478. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society.2016;

cf. A. Schulte, Über das Feuchten des Papiers mit nassen Tüchern bei Joh. Zainer; in Gutenberg-Jb. 1941, (pp. 19-22)

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Thomas Aquinas on Sacrament of Penance ca. 1493.

563J Thomas Aquinas

Quaestiones junta doctrina circa confessionem seu Sacramentum poenitentiae.

[Rome : Johann Besicken, about 1493-94]. Collijn assigns this to Guldinbeck. PRICE $3,100

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

https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00325000

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