Opus quadragesimale p[er]utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est.

Accession number:

PML 20486

Author:

Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495.

Published:

Venice : Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1472.

Description:

[270] leaves ; 29.5 x 22 cm. (fol.) & (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/3r): Sacre theologie magistri necno[n] sacri eloquii preconis celeberrimi fratris Roberti de Litio ordinis Mino[rum] professoris opus quadragesimale p[er]utilissimum quod de penitentia dictum est. Feliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf [27]/12r): Rubertus celeber finxit non parva mino[rum] / Gloria me fratrum Paulo regnante secundo. / Quarto sed Sixto veniens Hailbrun alema[n]nus / Franciscus formis Veneta me pressit in urbe / Mille quadringentis & septuagenta duobus.
Printed in type 1:109R.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁶ 11-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21-26¹⁰ 27¹²]: 270 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto and chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.6 cm.
PML copy with quires [1-12] in quarto and [13-27] in folio.

Binding:

Modern half calf over oak boards (29.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Cloth pastedowns with plain paper fly leaves; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Quadragesimale de poenitentia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, first leaf only with red lombard and capital strokes, the remainder unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript foliation, with foliation added to tabula at beginning.

Provenance:

Unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified sale catalogue (Martini?) descriptioin, lot 62 (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books