Interrogatoriu[m] siue co[n]fessionale / [per] venerabile[m] fratre[m] Bartholomeu[m] d[e] Chaimis de Mediolano Ordinis Mino[rum] compositu[m] ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartholomaeus, de Chaimis

Contributor:

Fratres Ordinis Eremitarum (Firm), printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Confessionale

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Confession--Early works to 1800.

Confession.

Christian ethics--Early works to 1800.

Christian ethics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding) -- Germany -- 15th century.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Rebdorf, Germany) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

112 unnumbered leaves (first leaf blank) ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Interrogatorium sive confessionale

Incipit: Incipit interrogatoriu[m] siue co[n]fessionale [per] venerabile[m] fratre[m] Bartholomeu[m] d[e] Chaimis de Mediolano Ordinis Mino[rum] compositu[m] in loco Sancte Marie de Angelis apud Mediolanum et distinguitur in q[ua]tuor partes principales

Fingerprint:

r.q. iost e.ul styd (C) 1480 (T)

Place of Publication:

[Nuremberg] : [Fratres Eremitarum S. Augustini], [31 May 1480]

Notes:

Author and title from incipit.

Place of printing and printer's name from ISTC. Imprint date from colophon, which reads: Explicit interrogatoriu[m] siue confessionale [per]utile. Per venerabilem fratrem Bartholomeum de Chaymis de mediolano ordinis minorum editu[m] in loco sancte Marie de angelis apud mediolanu[m]. Impressum[que] sub Anno domini. Millesimoquadringentesimooctuagesimo. die vero tricesimoprimo mensis May.

Chancery quarto, printed in double columns. Leaf [2]r: 36 lines to a full column; area of text: 143 x 95 mm.; col. width: 42 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. Section marks and headings printed in red. Without foliation, signatures or catchwords.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 203 x 153 mm.

Rubrication: initial and capital strokes supplied in red on leaf [2]r only.

Provenance: From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his bookplate affixed to back pastedown and his autograph (1892) on recto of blank leaf [1]r. This leaf also has 3 early ms. former ownership inscriptions (1 of Augustinian monastery of St. John the Baptist in Rebdorf, Germany, 1 partially illegible and 1 effaced) and early ms. contents note on upper portion; ms. notes in pencil in Lea's hand on lower portion.

Bound in one-quarter blind-stamped pig over wooden boards; 3 raised bands on spine; ms. title in ink and shelf marks in ink and pencil on spine; evidence of clasp and catchplate; vellum leaves with early ms. (including part of the antiphon "In prole mater, in partu virgo" with musical notation, and texts related to the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross) in brown and red ink used as binder's waste.

Leaves [2]-[112] numbered "1"-"111" in ms. in upper margin; some ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in ink or pencil throughout text.

Leaf 95 torn and mended across upper portion. Many pinpoint wormholes through boards; pastedowns and first few leaves lightly wormed with occasional damage to text; occasional wormholes throughout bookblock.

Cited in:

Goff B-159

GW 6546

BSB-Ink. C-249

BN cat. des incun. C-239

ISTC ib00159000

Hain 2485

Proctor 5929

OCLC:

79982460