Accession number
PML 521
Creator
Mateusz, z Krakowa, Cardinal, approximately 1330-1410.
Object title
Co[n]fessionale seu libellus p[er]optim[us] beati thome de aquino de modo confitendi et de puritate conscientie cuilibet confessori et confiteri volenti p[er]utilis [et] necessarius.
Published
Noviter i[m]press[us] Parisii : per magistru[m] Stephanum iehannot ... et per magistrum guillermum guerssoni de villalonga, [about 1495].
Description
[28] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 13.5 cm. (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf [a]1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf d4r: Tractatus peroptimus de confessione seu puritate cordis [et] mu[n]ditia me[n]tis. Noviter i[m]press[us] parisii per magistru[m] Stephanum iehannot commora[n]tem in vico sancti iacobi prope mathurinos. Et per magistrum guillermum guerssoni de villalonga parisii studentem in domo domini de fonte ante collegium Remense prope sanctam genouefam moram trahantem feliciter finit. Deo gratias.
Printed Jehannot's types 2:65G and 3:96G.
Signatures: [a]-c⁸ d⁴: 28 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
2 woodcuts: Coronation of the Virgin (leaf [a]1r) and Dance of Death/Pope (leaf d4v).
Often attributed to Thomas Aquinas or Bonaventura (cf. P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes des casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen-age, Louvain, 1962; CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12.8 x 8.7 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf d4r: Tractatus peroptimus de confessione seu puritate cordis [et] mu[n]ditia me[n]tis. Noviter i[m]press[us] parisii per magistru[m] Stephanum iehannot commora[n]tem in vico sancti iacobi prope mathurinos. Et per magistrum guillermum guerssoni de villalonga parisii studentem in domo domini de fonte ante collegium Remense prope sanctam genouefam moram trahantem feliciter finit. Deo gratias.
Printed Jehannot's types 2:65G and 3:96G.
Signatures: [a]-c⁸ d⁴: 28 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
2 woodcuts: Coronation of the Virgin (leaf [a]1r) and Dance of Death/Pope (leaf d4v).
Often attributed to Thomas Aquinas or Bonaventura (cf. P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes des casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen-age, Louvain, 1962; CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12.8 x 8.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century English half calf, with brown paper sides, over paper boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: Confessionale
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required, except leaf [a]2r, unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Sir Lewis Molesworth (1853-1912), his sale, Sotheby's, 8 March 1897, lot 758, for £4.6 to Pickering for: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 257, 10/3/97 and price code: s/ws/e +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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