Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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
Creator
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.
Object title

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

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
Century
Department