Rosarium sermonum predicabilium ad faciliorem predicantium co[m]moditatem nouissime co[m]pilatum : in quo quicquid preclarum & utile in cu[n]ctis sermonariis us[que] in hodiernu[m] editis continentur : hic ingeniose enucleatum at[que] solerti cura collectum inuenies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernardino, de' Busti, approximately 1450-1513?

Contributor:

Cassini, Samuele.

Illuminatus, Novariensis

Arrivabene, Giorgio, active 1483-1520, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Church year sermons--Early works to 1800.

Church year sermons.

Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Sermons, Latin.

Genre:

Sermons.

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Conventus S. Francisci Montiscalvii (former owner) (inscription)

Macauley Library (bookplate)

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered leaves, 261, that is, 259 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 18 unnumbered leaves, 409, that is, 407 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (the last leaf of each part blank) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Rosarium sermonum

Fingerprint:

o.s. P.p. au.i liti (3) 1498 (A) pt.1

lep O.ne i&*p niiu (3) 1498 (R) pt.2

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Giorgio Arrivabene], [1498]

Notes:

Author from colophon at end of part 2.

"[A]dditions by Illuminatus Novariensis and Samuel Cassinensis"--Goff.

Imprint from colophons at end of each part. Part 1 dated 31 May 1498; part 2 dated 16 August 1498.

Colophon on leaf 2g3v reads: Impressum Venetijs per Georgiu[m] Arriuabenis sub anno domijnice [sic] incarnationis. 1498. [pri]die kale[n]das Iunias. (A variant has "dominice" for "domijnice". Cf. GW.)

Colophon on leaf 3E7v reads: Finit compendium sermonum predicabilium quod rosarum appellatur nouiter editum per fratrem Bernardinum de bustis ordinis minorum: ac diligentissime per ipsum reuisum et castigatum Impressum uero Venteiis maxima cum dilige[n]tia per Georium de Arriuabenis ab anno Incarnationis dominice .M.CCCC.lxxxxviii. xvii. Kalen. Septembris.

Chancery quarto, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf a1r: 51 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 146 (154) x 103 mm.; column width: 50 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; two 10-line woodcut initials, 1 on leaf a1r (22 x 22 mm) and 1 on leaf A1r (22 x 23 mm). Printed paragraph marks. With foliation and signatures; catchword on verso of last leaf of each gathering. Register at end of each part (leaves 2g3v and 3E7v). Woodcut printer's device (63 x 37 mm.) at end of each part (leaves 2g3v and 3E7v).

In 2 parts, bound (as issued?) in 1 vol., each with separate signatures and foliation; part 2 has special half-title which reads: Secunda pars rosarii de Bustis.

Signatures: pt 1: pi⁸ 3-4⁸ 5⁶ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ 2a-2f⁸ 2g⁴ ; pt. 2: [Maltese cross]⁸ 2[Maltese cross]¹⁰ A-3E⁸.

Leaves pi2-pi4 of pt. 1 are signed "2", "3" and "4", respectively; leaf [Maltese cross]2 of pt. 2 is signed [Maltese cross].

Errors in foliation: pt. 1: nos. 81 and 260 omitted.

Errors in foliation: pt. 2: nos. 101, 104 and 408 omitted; f. [103] numbered "97".

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 200 x 140 mm.

Without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. notes (in at least 2 hands?), underlines and marks in brown ink in text; a few early ms. notes (including Greek[?], Hebrew and Latin renditions of Exodus 15:3) in brown ink on title leaf; copious early ms. notes (in 2 hands?) in brown ink on blank leaf 3E8 and following bound-in blank leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Conuentus .S. Franci: Montiscaluij"), possibly of the Convento della SS. Trinità on Monte Calvo in Tuscany, at foot of leaf 3E7r.

Penn Libraries copy is from the Macauley Library.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern one-quarter morocco (now dark red) over brown cloth; 3 raised bands on spine; author's surname, brief title, and place and date of imprint stamped in gold on spine.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf, leaves 3E7-3E8, and blank leaf bound in at end of volume reinforced with thin tissue; wormhole in tail markgin of leaves 2X7-3E8; some leaves at beginning and end of volume lightly dampstained.

Cited in:

Goff B-1336

BM 15th cent. V, p. 387 (IA.22572)

GW 5807

BSB-Ink. B-1018

BN cat. des incun. B-943

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2141

ISTC ib01336000

OCLC:

80967444