[De simonia].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nauclerus, Johannes, 1425-1510.

Contributor:

Otmar, Johann, active 1482-1517, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Dunn, George, 1864-1912 (bookplate)

Kloster St. Matthias (Trier, Germany) (former owner) (inscription)

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944 (autograph)

Physical Description:

82 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Title from explicit: Tractatus de symonia [per]utilis editus a ... Ioha[n]ni Nauclero ...

De symonia

Fingerprint:

osit a-mi dune nugr (C) 1500 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Tübingen] : [Johann Otmar], [28 June(?) 1500]

Notes:

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC.

Explicit on leaf K7r reads: Tractatus de symonia [per]utilis editus a spectabili viro Ioha[n]ni nauclero vulgarit vergenhan[ss] nuncupato decretoru[m] doctore famosissimo. Necnon ecclesie collegiate Thübingensis p[re]posito. Eiusde[mque] vnuiersitatis Ca[n]cellario dignissimo feliciter explicit. xxviij. Kalen[das] Iunij. Anno. j500.

"Ends with the date 'xxviij Kaleñ Iunij. Anno .j500', presumably the date of printing rather than of composition and standing for 28 June 1500"--ISTC.

Chancery quarto, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf A1r: 40 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 149 (159) x 95 mm.; col. width: 44 mm. Initial spaces, some with guide letters. Printed marginalia and manicules. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-H⁸ I⁶ K⁸ (leaf K8 blank).

Errata on leaf pi4.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Guido, de Monte Rocherii. Manipulus curato[rum] officia sacerdotu[m] [secundu]m ordinem septem sacramentorum perbreuiter complectens. [Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, 29 Sept. 1492] (Goff G-602)

Leaf size: 208 x 150 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 early ms. shelf-marks (1 struck through) at head of front pastedown; ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on first blank leaf at beginning of volume

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1957.

Penn Libraries copy has bookplate ("FROM THE LIBRARY OF GEORGE DUNN OF WOOLLEY HALL NEAR MAIDENHEAD") of George Dunn on front pastedown; ms. bibliographical note ("Bothe copies coll. perfect J. Martini.") in pencil signed by Giuseppe Martini at head of first blank leaf at beginning of volume; early ms. ownership inscription ("Codex monasterij sancti mathie ap[osto]li") of Kloster St. Matthias, a Benedictine abbey in Trier, Germany, on first blank leaf at beginning of volume, followed by a ms. contents list in the same hand.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calf(?) over square-edged wooden boards; 3 raised bands on spine; portion of an early parchment ms. leaf primarily containing text headed: De officijs et vigilijs c[ir]ca defunctu[m] (text in dark ink with initial, underline, paragraph mark and capital strokes in red ink; early ms. annotations and corrections to text in dark ink) used as binder's waste (front pastedown); portion of an early parchment ms. leaf containing Christian Latin prayers (text in a small hand in brown ink with capital and virgule strokes in red ink; small hole stitched closed) used as binder's waste (back pastedown); 3 raised bands on spine; 1 leather and metal clasp with metal catchplate; leather finding tabs affixed to fore-edge of leaves A1, B7 and H7.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf K8 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged; a few wormholes in pastedowns and first several leaves in volume; tear in fore-edge margin of leaf E8; tail outer outer corner of leaf E8 torn off.

Cited in:

Goff N-10

BM 15th cent. III, p. 704 (IA.14830)

GW M25879

BN cat. des incun. N-8

BSB-Ink. N-7

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1100

ISTC in00010000

J. & J. Leighton. Early printed books arranged by presses, no. 521

Jenkinson, F. Incunabula collected by George Dunn, no. 422

OCLC:

84042247