Incipit libellus qui appellatur regime[n] co[n]scie[n]tie vel paruu[m] bonum, editus a fratre Bonaue[n]ture cardinalis.

Accession number:

PML 23617

Author:

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.

Published:

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [before 18 September 1477]

Description:

[48] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1926.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
De triplici via with title Regimen conscientie vel parvum bonum. The true author is Hugo de Balma (Verfasserlexikon 4 col. 225). On the text of (Pseudo-) Methodius see M. Kmosko in Byzantion 6 (1931) pp.273-96 (Sack(Freiburg) 2441).
Imprint from ISTC.
Polain dates about 1475.
Printed in Zel's type 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Collation: [1-6⁸]: 48 leaves, leaf [6]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.4 x 15 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [6]/8 (blank).

Binding:

19th/20th century parchment over limp paper boards (22.5 x 16 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endelaves.

Variant Title:

Regimen conscientie vel parvum bonum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary (Lower Rhine) rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Quires signed at top center of each first folio: C1, C2, etc. Previously part of a Sammelband, manuscript quire signatures at bottom right edge begin with hh.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.Ph. Goldschmidt, May 1926.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books