Karoli familiarissimi epistolarum perutiles formule.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mennicken, Karolus, 1413-1493.

Contributor:

Misch, Friedrich, active 1488-1490, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Letter writing, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Letter writing, Latin.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Benedictines (Bregenz, Austria) (former owner) (inscription)

Monasterium Brigantinum (former owner) (inscription)

Raminger(?), Gebhard (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, LXXXII leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Formulae epistolarum

Fingerprint:

xvm: e.t. iati mutu (3) 1488 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Heidelberg] : [Friedrich Misch], Anno d[omi]ni 1488o exarataru[m]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf p1r).

Place of printing and printer's name from ISTC.

Imprint date from colophon on leaf m7v, which reads: Finis formula[rum] epistolariu[m] karoli: Anno d[omi]ni 1488o exarataru[m].

"A close reprint, the contents usually agreeing page for page, and with the same signatures, of Martin Schott's Strassburg edition of 1487 ..."--BM 15th cent.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a1v: 37 lines; area of text: 139 x 88 mm. Printed headline on rectos. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Woodcut floriated initial S (30 x 28 mm.) on leaf a1r.

Signatures: pi⁶ a⁸ b-c⁶ d⁸ e-f⁶ g⁸ h-i⁶ k-m⁸.

Leaf m8 is blank.

Leaves XVII, XVIII, XX, XXV, LXX and LXXXI numbered XVIII, XIX, XVII, XXVI, LVXI and LXXX, respectively.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 191 x 131 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines and marks and a few notes in brown ink in text; early ms. pious inscriptions and pen tests on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has on title leaf partially effaced dated 16th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris [...] [...] Brigantini .1.5.65") of a man from Bregenz, Austria, ms. ownership inscription ("Ex Bibliotheca Monasterij Brigantini.") of the library of Mehrerau Abbey, a Benedictine house at Bregenz, and partially illegible early ms. ownership and purchase inscription ("Fr Gebhardus Raminger[us] [or: Rammgerus?] ex Lacu Inferi[ore?] Augiae Brigantinae profess[us] ueru[m] se hui[us] libr[i?] ascribit[?] possessorem, empt[us] nuper [...] Scola Brigantina 14[88] R[...]") of Gebhard Raminger (or Rammger), possibly to be identified with Gebhard Raminger, Abbot of Mehrerau (ca. 1551-1616; elected abbot 1582), who renovated the cloister and built its library.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled parchment over indented, angled-edge wooden boards (decorations include 2 rectangular stamps: 1 depicting Christ's crucifixion with Moses and the bronze serpent and John the Baptist, with motto: ECCE AGNVS DEI QVI TOLLI; 1 depicting Christ's resurrection with motto: MORS ERO MORS TVA O MORS); remains of 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates; 3 raised bands on spine.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves dampstained; pinpoint wormhole in lower portion of leaves; wormhole in upper portion of leaves pi1-pi3 mended; leaf k3 torn and mended at tail outer corner.

Cited in:

Goff M-183

BM 15th cent. III, p. 668 (IA.12949)

GW M20494

BSB-Ink. M-111

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1065

ISTC im00183000

OCLC:

249357363