[Pre]ceptoriu[m] diuine legis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438.

Contributor:

Zell, Ulrich, -1503, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Praeceptorium divinae legis

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

330 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Preceptorium divine legis

Incipit of prologue: Incipit prologus i[n] expositione[m] decalogi s[e]c[undu]m fratre[m] Johan[n]e[m] Nyder sacre theologie professorem ordinis predicatorum

Goff title: Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio decalogi

Expositio decalogi

Fingerprint:

++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ (C) 1472 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [not after 1472]

Notes:

Title from incipit of text, which reads: Inci[pit] [pre]ceptoriu[m] diuine legis Capitulum primum.

Imprint information supplied from ISTC.

"The Harvard copy has a purchase date of 1472 (cf. Walsh); the Trier StB copy has a rubricator's date of 1473. Polain dated about 1475."--ISTC. Goff dates about 1480.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [31]r: 37 lines to a full column, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 213 (224) x 138 (159) mm.; col. width: 61 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

"With printed head-lines on the recto of leaves 11-44, 171 and 172 only, at first in the form I P C ij, afterwards as Primū Preceptū Capitulū Terciū."--BM 15th cent. "BMC's note on headlines is erroneous. Short headlines occur on leaves [a] 3-8; the longer form is found on [b] 1-3, 5-10, in quires [c], [d] and [e] 1-3."--ISTC. "This copy has [headlines] on the recto of leaves 36-38, 40-72, and 171-72 ..."--Walsh.

Explicit on leaf [329]r reads: Explicit preceptoriu[m] diuine legis fr[atr]is Ioannis Nyder sacre theologie [pro]fessois [sic] eximij ordi[ni]s [pre]dicato[rum] [con]ue[n]tua[lium] Nure[m]berge[nsis].

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all before leaf [29] (i.e. table of contents) wanting; text supplied in a gathering of 16 ms. leaves bound in at beginning of volume: 4 vellum (leaves 1, 8, 9 and 16); written in two columns in brown ink with initials, paragraph marks and underlines supplied in red or blue, capital strokes and puncti supplied in red, and some headings supplied in red; leaf 7 has hole in central portion of outer column with some loss of text.

Penn Libraries copy has printed headlines in the short form on leaves [31-35] (i.e. [a]3-7) and in the long form on leaves [36-38] (i.e. [a]8-10), [40-72] (i.e. [b]2-e[4]), and [171-172] (i.e. [p]1-2).

Leaf size: 291 x 213 mm.

Rubrication: initials supplied in red or blue (2 in red and blue with pen-work extensions); paragraph marks and underlines supplied in red or blue; capital letters highlighted in faded brown(?) ink throughout text; a few capital strokes supplied in red; some marginal ms. notes and marks supplied in red.

Penn Libraries copy: many leaves have ms. foliation supplied by a reader in pencil; some leaves have ms. headlines and/or signature marks supplied by a reader in brown ink; some ms. marginal marks in brown ink or pencil throughout text; some ms. marginal and interlinear notes and underlines in brown ink throughout text; ms. catchwords supplied by a reader in brown ink at foot of verso of last leaf of each gathering; bookseller's German ms. note in pencil on front pastedown; ms. notes in Lea's hand on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy has unidentified coat of arms hand-drawn at foot of leaf [29]r in red, blue and gold.

From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his bookplate affixed to front pastedown and his autograph (1894) on recto of front free endpaper.

Bound in full vellum with ms. author, title and date on spine; blind-stamped covers (border of double rules); vellum finding aid attached to fore-edge of leaf [211]; remains of paper finding aid attached to fore-edge of leaf [280].

Penn Libraries copy: leaves [159-160] torn and mended at fore-edge margin; a few leaves dampstained at outer margins.

Cited in:

Goff N-207

BM 15th cent. I, 194 (IB.3008)

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 334

ISTC in00196400

OCLC:

426118717