Accession number
PML 78154.3
Creator
Mateusz, z Krakowa, Cardinal, approximately 1330-1410.
Object title
Dialogus rac[i]onis [et] co[n]scientie an expediat vel debeat quis raro vel freque[n]ter celebra[r]e vel [com]municare.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [not after 1470]
Description
[58] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit dialogus rac[i]onis [et] co[n]scientie an expediat vel debeat quis raro vel freque[n]ter celebra[r]e vel [com]municare nup[er] editus p[er] magistru[m] matheu[m] de cracovia sacre theologie professorem.
Explicit (leaf [4]/2v): Explici[un]t Exortac[i]o seu Dyalogus. de disceptac[i]one Conscie[ntie] [et] rationis. de freque[n]ter aut raro celebrando. aut co[mm]unicando. Editus per Venerabilem Magistru[m] Matheu[m] de Crakovia. Sacre Theologie p[ro]fessore[m] studii pragen[sis].
Printed in Zell's types 1b:106/11G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-6⁸ 7¹⁰]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 14.5 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Explicit (leaf [4]/2v): Explici[un]t Exortac[i]o seu Dyalogus. de disceptac[i]one Conscie[ntie] [et] rationis. de freque[n]ter aut raro celebrando. aut co[mm]unicando. Editus per Venerabilem Magistru[m] Matheu[m] de Crakovia. Sacre Theologie p[ro]fessore[m] studii pragen[sis].
Printed in Zell's types 1b:106/11G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-6⁸ 7¹⁰]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 14.5 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Rose Stadtbuchbinder workshop in Cologne (EBDB w000169/Kyriss 100); spine cover wanting and leather peeling from boards. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Hebrew manuscript offset to leather turn-ins of top board. Vellum quire guards, including two fragments of the Mainz Catholicon, leaf [13]/1 (ISTC ib00020000, see also Powitz, Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main) at leaves [8]/4.5 and [16]/4.5 of Antoninus, Confessionale.
Variant title
Dialogus rationis et conscientiae de frequenti usu Communionis.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks (C-type), and underlining. Annotations: No notations in text. Manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures at bottom right corner of text block, quires o-v.
Provenance
Unidentified Dominican convent (Frankfurt/Main?), "Ord pd[rum]" inscription (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified German inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r of Augustine) and contents, early 19th century(?) (front endleaf 4 verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased Christie's London, 30 May 1984, lot 10.
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