Tractatus quida[m] de Turcis : [pro]ut ad p[re]sens ecclesia sancta ab eis affligit[ur] : collectus dilige[n]ti discussione scripturaru[m], a q[ui]busda[m] fratrib[us] ordinis p[re]dicatorum ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zeninger, Conrad, active 1480-1489, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Prophecies--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Relations.

Christianity.

Prophecies.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Bearer impressions (Printing) -- Germany -- Nuremberg -- 15th century.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered leaves (the first and last leaves blanks) ; 20 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

isdu t.et u.e- seco (C) 1481 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Nuremberg] : [Conrad Zeninger], [1481]

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf a2r.

Imprint from colophon on leaf c7v, which reads: Explicit tractat[us], collect[us] a[n]no d[omi]ni. M.cccc.lxxiiij. a quibusda[m] fratribus ordinis p[re]dicato[rum]: de presenti afflictione ecclesi: illata a turcis: declarans [per] aute[n]ticas sc[ri]pturas, quomo[do] ipsa sit presignata. et [pro]pter que peccata christianorum sit inflicta. et quanto sit finienda. Impressus a[n]no d[omi]ni. M.cccc.lxxxj. nure[m]berg, per conradum zeninger.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 32 lines, plus printed marginalia; area of text: 149 x 79 (98) mm. Initial spaces; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Blank leaves a1 and c8 each has 32 lines of uninked bearer impressions.

Signatures: a-c⁸ (leaves a1 and c8 blanks).

Leaf a1 unsigned; leaves a2-a4 signed a1-a3.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 197 x 142 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red and brown ink; a few paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red ink.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. annotations, some early ms. manicules, and a few early ms. underlines and marks in brown ink in text; early ms. note in brown ink on leaf a1v; title and place and date of printing in ms. in faint pencil on leaf a1r; modern ms. foliation ("1"-"16") in pencil in head outer corner of leaves a1-b8.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. correction to signature mark on leaf b3r.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1961.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; all edges yellow.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's typescript description of this copy in German affixed to front pastedown.

Cited in:

Goff T-503

BM 15th cent. II, p. 460 (IA.7939, IA.7940)

GW M48133

BN cat. des incun. T-307

BSB-Ink. T-437

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 794

ISTC it00503000

OCLC:

7538929