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Theologa responsio de indulgentiis quam magnam ordinariam vocant.

Accession number
PML 77098
Creator
Benard, Johannes.
Object title

Theologa responsio de indulgentiis quam magnam ordinariam vocant.

Published

[Paris or Rouen] : [Printer of the 'Breviarium Rothomagense' (GW 5437)], [after March 1484]

Description

[14] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1981.
Notes
Title and date from explicit, leaf b6v: Finit theologa responsio de indulge[n]tiis quam magnam ordinariam vocant. facta in celeberrimo fratrum minoru[m] gignasio per theologum baccalariu[m] formatum ioha[n]ne[m] benard. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimooctavagesimotercio. In me[n]se martio ante pascha.
Printer assignment from CIBN. PML Checklist had assigned [Poitiers : Jean Bouyer, not before Mar. 1483]
Printed in type 1:103/104G assigned to the Printer of the "Breviarium Rothomagense" (GW 5437).
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 15 cm.
Binding
19th-century blind-tooled brown sheep over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedown and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Responsio de indulgentiis quam magnam ordinariam vocant
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Leaf a2r with a printing fault: leaf was folded during printing so that bottom right corner of text is printed offset from main text block, with ink smudges in margin. Leaves b3-4 trimmed at bottom edge.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription cited in Sexton sale catalogue: "Casparus Gueldischuorg(?), inscription dated 1566"; Feliciano Ramirez de Arellano, Marqués de la Fuensanta del Valle (1826-1896), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); unidentified rectangular label with dashed frame, with printed "4801" (rear pastedown); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 120, booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 139; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Christie's as the gift of Henry S. Morgan, April 1981.
Classification
Century
Department