Accession number
PML 19116.4
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title
De articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis.
Published
[Mainz] : [Printer of the 'Catholicon'], [about 1469]
Description
[13] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printing also attributed to: [Johann Gutenberg?, 1460]
Printed in the Printer of the Catholicon type 1:82G.
34-line issue, printed at approximately the same date as the 36-line issue on paper manufactured later. On this, and on the printer, see the articles "zur Catholicon-Forschung" in Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte 13 (1988) pp.105-232, and L. Hellinga in Gb Jb 1989 pp.47-96 and in the Book Collector (Spring 1992) pp. 28-54.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁴ (4+1: "in deo delectabimur")]: 13 leaves. PML copy includes the conjugate blank from leaf [2]/4+1 bound before leaf [1]/1.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
Printing also attributed to: [Johann Gutenberg?, 1460]
Printed in the Printer of the Catholicon type 1:82G.
34-line issue, printed at approximately the same date as the 36-line issue on paper manufactured later. On this, and on the printer, see the articles "zur Catholicon-Forschung" in Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte 13 (1988) pp.105-232, and L. Hellinga in Gb Jb 1989 pp.47-96 and in the Book Collector (Spring 1992) pp. 28-54.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁴ (4+1: "in deo delectabimur")]: 13 leaves. PML copy includes the conjugate blank from leaf [2]/4+1 bound before leaf [1]/1.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
15th-century German pigskin (tooled only with fillets in blind) over wooden boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns, with vellum reinforcement around book block; plain endbands. 1 strap/peg clasp, missing.
Variant title
Checklist title: Summa de articulis fidei
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (different style than first three works in volume). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout text, with some extensive notes on blanks. Manuscript table of contents for Sammelband (front endleaf 1 recto) and extensive notes at end of volume.
Provenance
Ownership inscription torn away (De simonia, leaf [1]/1r); C. Deterich, signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Eduard Rahir, April 1911.
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