[Indulgentia, 1482, issued by Sixtus IV for promoting the war against the Turks].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Catholic Church. Pope (1471-1484 : Sixtus IV)

Contributor:

Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484.

Creussner, Friedrich, active 1472-1499, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Blank forms -- Germany -- 15th century.

forms (documents)

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 205 x 300 mm

Other Title:

Goff title: Indulgentia, 1482

Indulgence, 1482

Forma confessionalis

Text begins: Pateat vniuersis p[rese]ntes l[itte]ras inspecturis. Qualiter deuoti in [Christ]o

Place of Publication:

[Nuremberg] : [Friedrich Creussner], Anno domini MCCCCLXXXij [1482]

Notes:

"This edition served as model for xylographic editions (C 5540 and variants: see GW 32 note). Walsh notes variants from GW's description."--ISTC.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Place of printing and printer's name supplied from ISTC.

Broadside (chancery half-sheet, oblong format): 23 lines, including 2 headlines; area of text: 128 x 229 mm. Headlines read "Forma confessionalis." (line 1) and "Forma absolutionis." (line 15). At the end of line 2 and the beginning of line 3, space has been left for the names of the recipients. In line 12, space has been left for the name of the Franciscan subcommissary; at the end of line 14, space has been left to complete the date of issue. Rubrication not called for.

Line 1 ends: [pro]uide[n]titia. Variant: line 1 ends: [pro]uidentia. Cf. GW Einblattdrucke.

Online version available via Colenda https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3w669f8t

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is variant in which line 1 ends: [pro]uide[n]tia.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. note in pencil ("GW 32 b") in lower left corner of recto; ms. shelf-mark ("B.II.ii-i2") in ink on verso.

Penn Libraries copy has 3 leaves of photoreproductions of material from the Yale University Library laid in: 1 facsimile of a copy of this indulgence in which line 1 ends "[pro]uidentia"; 1 facsimile of a copy of this indulgence in which line 1 ends "[pro]uide[n]titia", with a reproduction of a card headed "The Infancy of Printing" at right; and 1 page from an exhibition catalog headed "An Indulgence For Contributors To a Fund For the Fight Against the Turks".

Cited in:

Goff S-568

GW 32

GW Einblattdrucke, 22, 23

BSB-Ink. F-191

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 781, S-781A

ISTC is00568000

OCLC:

249370735