Tractatus nouus de miraculoso eukaristie sacramento, qu[i] apparet in forma pueri, aut carnis vel sa[n]guinis in hostia consecrata.

Accession number: 
PML 79152
Author: 
Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Types of Johann Bämler], [after 5 June 1493]
Description: 
[28] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r: Tractatus nouus de miraculoso eukaristie sacramento, qu[i] apparet in forma pueri, aut carnis vel sa[n]guinis in hostia consecrata. Collect[us] a fratre Heinrico Institoris sacre pagine p[ro]fessore, ordinis predicato[rum] inquisitore heretice prauitatis in co[n]uentu augustensi, aduersus eos qui asserunt q[ou]d cessante spe[n]cessant esse corpus [christ]i in sacramento.
Imprtin from ISTC.
Printed in Bämler's types 3:119G (quires A-C) and 7:90G (quire D, also identified as type 1:90G of the Printer of the Almanac of 1491 (GW 1462)).
On the printer and date, see BSB-Ink. Goff dates as after 11 June 1493.
Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴: 28 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
With dedicatory letter to Vitus Fackler, prior of the Augustinian convent of the Holy Cross in Augsburg, dated 5 June 1493.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
Later quarter leather over 15th-century beech boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant Title: 

Tractatus novus de miraculoso eukaristie sacramento

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title inscription, partially covered by later leather (front board).

Provenance: 
Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 90, purchased 24 Feb. 1964 from Menno Hertzberger (cat. 44, no 71), bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Boards (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books