Tractatus contra vicia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Husner, Georg, -1505, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered leaves, LXVI, that is, 67 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (the last leaf blank) ; 18 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

e.n, x.q. eta* netu (3) 1498 (R)

Place of Publication:

Imp[re]ssus Arge[n]tine : [Per] ... Georgiu[m] Hu[ss]ner ..., Anno salutis nostre Mccccxcviij quinta die decembris [5 Dec. 1498]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf pi1r).

Imprint from colophon on leaf l7v, which reads: Tractatus contra vitia ratione & auctoritate terribiliter clamans, modernis christicolis necessarius: necnon vtilissimus clero & laicis. Imp[re]ssus Arge[n]tine [per] industriu[m] Georgiu[m] Hu[ss]ner inibi incolam finit feliciter. Anno salutis nostre. M.cccc.xcviij. quinta die decembris.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2r: 35 lines, plus headline; area of text: 137 (146) x 83 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. Printed marginalia. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Signatures: pi⁸ a-c⁸ d-g⁴/⁸ h⁴ i⁶ k⁴ l⁸ (leaf l8 blank).

Imp[re.ssus Arge[n]Published in Strasbourg] :

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 168 x 115 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, underlines and paragraph marks supplied in red; one initial (leaf a3r) supplied in blue.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations, underlines and marginal marks in brown ink in text; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1961.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 paper slips with bookseller's printed description of this copy laid in.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern pig(?) over square-edge wooden boards; left board tooled in blind (including title and imprint); 4 raised bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; title stamped in blind at head of spine and imprint at foot; blind-tooled cover edges.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia; left board detached.

Cited in:

Goff T-421a

BM 15th cent. I, p. 162 (IA.2367)

GW M50988

BN cat. des incun. T-303

BSB-Ink. T-408

ISTC it00421500

OCLC:

249380257