Sermones Meffreth al[ia]s Ortulus regine ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meffreth, active 15th century

Contributor:

Kessler, Nikolaus, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sermones de tempore et de sanctis

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Church year sermons--Early works to 1800.

Church year sermons.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 15th century.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Penniman, James Hosmer, 1860-1931 (donor)

Penniman, Maria Hosmer (honoree)

Franziskanerkloster (Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) (bookplate) (former owner) (inscription)

Franciscans (Bolzano, Italy) (bookplate) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Sermones Meffreth

Ortulus regine

Goff title: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis, sive, Hortulus reginae

Hortulus reginae

Fingerprint:

qdri umuo teet qtca (C) 1487 (T) v.1

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Nikolaus Kessler], [20 Jan. 1487]

Contents:

Sermones Meffreth al[ia]s Ortulus regine de tempore Pars Hyemalis

Sermones Meffret al[ia]s Ortulus regine de te[m]pore pars Estiualis

Sermones Meffreth al[ia]s Ortulus regine de Sanctis.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon at end of pt. 3, which reads: Opus salutiferum sermonum Meffreth in tres [par]tes diuisu[m] Hyemalem videlicet. Estiualem et de Sanctis explicit Impressu[m] Basilee per Nicolaum Kesler. Anno domini. Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctuagesimoseptimo. die Saturni. xx. Me[n]sis Ianuarij.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Pt. 1, leaf a2r: 55 lines, plus headline; area of text: 224 (236) x 144 mm.; col. width: 68 mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Woodcut printer's device of Nikolaus Kessler at end of pt. 3: "The design is the typical German double shield. On the left one are three kettlehooks (Kesselhaken), a play on the printer's name; the right shield contains the initial of his surname, K, with a cross extending to the right."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 114.

Signatures: pt. 1: a¹² b¹⁰ c-r⁸ [long s]⁸ s-v⁸ w⁸ x-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]¹⁰ ; pt. 2: 2a¹⁰ 2b-2k⁸ kl⁶ 2l-2y⁸ Zz⁸ 1-7⁸ 2A-2H⁸ II¹² ; pt. 3: A¹⁰ B-N⁸ NN⁸ O-Y⁸ Z⁶ [sec]⁶.

Foliation: pt. 1: [232] leaves (the last leaf blank) ; pt. 2: [324] leaves (the last leaf blank) ; pt. 3: [198] leaves (the last leaf blank).

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 284 x 200 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red ink in text; underlines and paragraph mark supplied in red ink on title leaf; one 7-line colored and illuminated initial with floriate extensions (the whole now much damaged) on leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown; illegible ms. inscription at head of title leaf; some early ms. underlines, paragraph marks, marginal marks and notes (in more than one hand?) in text.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. James H. Penniman in 1930 in honor of his mother, Maria Hosmer Penniman, and formerly housed in the Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education.

Penn Libraries copy has engraved bookplate ("Bibliotheca Conventus Bulsanensis ad S: Franciscum Ord: Min: Ref: Prov: Turol:" surrounding an image of St. Francis receiving the stigmata) of the Franziskanerkloster in Bolzano, Italy, on front pastedown; dated 17th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Ex Bibliotheca F.F. Min: Reform: Bolsani. i65i.") of the Franziskanerkloster in Bolzano, Italy, at head of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full blind-tooled parchment over beveled-edge wooden boards; 3 raised bands on spine; 2 leather and metal clasps (1 intact) and 2 metal catchplates; all edges blue; paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("Hx 10999 p. II.") on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: part 1 only (in which all after leaf [rum]5 wanting).

Penn Libraries copy: left board, front free endpaper and leaves a1-b8 detached from spine; a few wormholes in left board, front pastedown, front free endpaper and title leaf; leaves dampstained; lower portion of leaf a3 torn and mended; leaves cropped at fore-edge with occasional damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff M-442

BM 15th cent. III, p. 764 (IB.37579)

GW M22634

BSB-Ink. S-305

ISTC im00442000

OCLC:

53359467