Incipit vtilimvm et preclarissimvm sacramentale Neapolitanvm, editvm per insignem et preclarissimvm legvm doctorem sacrorumq[ue] canonu[m] ueru[m] interprete[m], dominu[m] Stephanum de Gaeta de Neapoli

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Accession number: 
PML 30272
Author: 
Stephanus de Caieta.
Published: 
Neapoli impressum : per me Judocum Hauenstain, M° cccc° lxxv°, die vero xiiii. mensis septembris [14 September 1475].
Description: 
[230] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)
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Purchased in 1934.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [2]/2r: Incipit vtilimvm et preclarissimvm sacramentale Neapolitanvm, editvm per insignem et preclarissimvm levm doctorem sacrorumq[ue] canonu[m] ueru[m] interprete[m], dominu[m] Stephanum de Gaeta de Neapoli, opus quidem p[er]magne utilitatis quo qui caret sacramento[rum] effectu necesse est careat.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [26]/7v: Anno ab incarnat[i]o[n]e d[ominu]m saluatoris nostri .M° cccc° lxxv°, die uero xiiii. me[n]s[is] septe[m]bris ad .d. Io. Baptistam de Benteuoleis de Saxoferrato utriusq[ue] iuris do. illustrissimu[m]: inuictissimi Ferdinandi regis Scicilie consiliarium: Sacramentale Neapolitanum perutile: per d. Stephanum de Gaieta de Neapoli excellentissimum utri. iur[is] interpretem ad sui memoriam & alio[rum] profectu[m] necno[n] ob eccl[es]ie Ro. stabilit[i]o[num]: que doctis illustrat[ur] uiris non modicis uigiliis: recollectu[m]: atq[ue] per me Iudocum Haue[n]stain dyoces[is] Spire[nsis]. Neapoli impressum feliciter explicit.
Signed by printer at end of register, leaf [1]/8r: Ivdocvs Hovvenstain.
Printed in Hohenstein's type 1:106R.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6-8⁸ 9-10¹⁰ 11-12⁸ 13-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24-26⁸]: 230 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [2]/1 and [26]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Prefatory letter by Fuscus Severinus to Johannes de Aragona (leaf [1]/2r) and Stephanus de Caieta's dedication to Johannes Baptista de Bentivoleis de Saxoferrato (leaf [2]/2r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28.2 cm.

Binding: 
15th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (42 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Dominican bindery in Würzburg (EBDB w002695, active ca. 1473-1485, also known as Würzburg Dominikaner). Renewed plain paper pastedowns; braided and colored leather endbands. Brass corner pieces; corner and central bosses, missing' 2 clasps, 1 clasp missing.
Variant Title: 

Incipit utilimum et preclarissimum sacramentale Neapolitanum, editum per insignem et preclarissimum legum doctorem sacrorumque canonum verum interpretem, dominum Stephanum de Gaeta de Neapoli

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Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few sporadic contemporary marginal notations, mainly at beginning and end.

Provenance: 
E.P. Goldschmidt, cat. 100 (1934), no. 88; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, May 1934.
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