Accession number
PML 21237
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title
Tractatul[us] solemnis de arte et vero modo predica[n]di ex diversis sacroru[m] docto[rum] scripturis et principaliter sacratissimi christiane ecclesie doctoris, / Thome de Aq[ui]no ex parvo suo quoda[m] tractatulo r[e]collect[us], ubi s[e]c[un]d[um] modu[m] et formam materie presentis procedit.
Published
In Civitate Gebenne[n]si : Impressus per .M. Ludovicu[m] cruse al[ia]s garbini, Anno d[omi]ni M° CCCC° lxxxi° .x. septembris [10 September 1481].
Description
[12] leaves ; 28.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [2]/4v: Explicit tractatus famosissimus de arte et vero modo predica[n]di. Sacratissimi christiane ecclesie doctoris Thome d[e] Aq[ui]no. In Civitate Gebenne[n]si Impressus Per .M. Ludovicu[m] cruse al[ia]s garbini. Anno d[omi]ni M° CCCC° lxxxi° .x. septembris.
Printed in Cruse's type 2:119G.
Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia (T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi, Paris, 1936, p.87) (CIBN).
Woodcut initials with printer's monogram LC.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁴]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Goff incorrectly gives the format as quarto.
Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia (T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi, Paris, 1936, p.87) (CIBN).
1 column, 31 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [2]/4v: Explicit tractatus famosissimus de arte et vero modo predica[n]di. Sacratissimi christiane ecclesie doctoris Thome d[e] Aq[ui]no. In Civitate Gebenne[n]si Impressus Per .M. Ludovicu[m] cruse al[ia]s garbini. Anno d[omi]ni M° CCCC° lxxxi° .x. septembris.
Printed in Cruse's type 2:119G.
Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia (T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi, Paris, 1936, p.87) (CIBN).
Woodcut initials with printer's monogram LC.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁴]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Goff incorrectly gives the format as quarto.
Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia (T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi, Paris, 1936, p.87) (CIBN).
1 column, 31 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.
Binding
19th-century brown morocco.
Variant title
Checklist title: De arte et vero modo praedicandi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red paragraph marks and capital strokes, woodcuts hand colored. Initial on leaf [1]/3r not printed and added by hand, in contemporary Flemish style. Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal correction (leaf [1]/2r) and memorial inscription below colophon (leaf [2]/4v).
Provenance
Mechelen (Belgium), Penitents of the Third Order of S. Francis, Bethleem Chapel, inscription: "Bethleem" (leaf [1]/2r); Bernard Quaritch, collation statement, 19 Feb. 1920 (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.
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