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Tractatus de ruine ecclesie planctu.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Controversial literature.
- Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- Controversial literature.
- Incunabula.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Goff title: Planctus ruinae ecclesiae
- Incipit: Incipit planctus ruine ecclesie Latino simul & vulgari ydeomate richmico seu versifico modo compositus
- Fingerprint:
- l.d. g.g. t.t. m.ri (C)
- Place of Publication:
- Impressus Memmingen : [Albrecht Kunne], [1488-1491?]
- Language Note:
- In verse, with the first half of each line in Latin and the latter half in German.
- Notes:
- GW identifies the author as Johannes Fabri.
- Printer's name and date of printing supplied from ISTC.
- Mezzo-Median quarto. Leaf a3r: 34 lines; area of text: 147 x 90 mm. Printed fists and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves a2.7 wanting; 3 pinpoint wormholes through bookblock with occasional minor damage to text.
- Leaf size: 187 x 130 mm.
- Rubrication: underlines and a few capital strokes supplied in red in section headings.
- Penn Libraries copy has supposed author's name supplied in ms. in pencil on title leaf; ms. note regarding author's identity in Lea's hand at foot of title leaf.
- From the library of Henry Charles Lea. With his autograph (1887) on recto of front free endpaper and his bookplate bound in before title leaf.
- Bound in paper boards covered with early printed leaves from a Christian theological text in German (in double columns with printed initials and paragraph marks); 2 early printed leaves (from the same text?) used as pastedowns and endpapers; ms. title ("Fabri Tractatus de Ruina Ecclesiae") supplied on upper board.
- Cited in:
- Goff P-748
- BM 15th cent. II, 609 (IA.11146)
- GW 9662
- BSB-Ink. F-28
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, S-980A
- ISTC ip00748000
- OCLC:
- 33238496
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