[De adhaerendo Deo].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johannes, von Kastl, active 15th century.

Contributor:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Zainer, Johann, 1470-1541?, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Christian ethics--Catholic authors--Early works to 1800.

Christian ethics.

Christian ethics--Catholic authors.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered leaves : 27 cm. (folio)

Other Title:

Incipit: Incipit liber Alberti Magni Ordinis Predicatorum De adherendo Deo ...

De adherendo Deo

Fingerprint:

iso: oeor odlt inCX (C) 1473 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Ulm] : [Johann Zainer], [1473?]

Contents:

De adhaerendo Deo / Albertus Magnus [i.e. Johannes von Kastl]

De remediis contra pusillanimitatem / Jean Gerson

Epistola de modo proficiendi / Bonaventure

Doctrina iuvenum / Bonaventure

De instructione novitiorum / Bonaventure.

Notes:

Contains in addition to De adhaerendo Deo (usually attributed to Albertus Magnus, but actually by Johannes von Kastl), Jean Gerson's De remediis contra pusillanimitatem and Bonaventure's Epistola de modo proficiendi, Doctrina iuvenum, and De instructione novitiorum. Cf. ISTC.

Title and imprint supplied from ISTC.

Chancery folio. Leaf c5v: 34 lines; area of text: 185 x 112 mm. Initial spaces ("some with guide letters"--BM 15th cent.); spaces for paragraph marks. Without foliation, signatures or catchwords.

Signatures: [a-d]¹⁰.

Leaf b1r (f. 11r), line 1 reads: aduersitas vbi non dominatur ... (a variant has "hominatur" for "dominatur"). Leaf b3v (f. 13v), line 20: the "F" of "Finit" is upside-down (a variant has "Einit"). Leaf b4r (f. 14r), lines 5-6 read: ... ILLVMIHATISSI [/] MUM ... (a variant has "ILLVMINATISSI [/] MUM"). Leaf b4r (f. 14r), lines 7-8 read: ... CONCEL [/] LARIVM ... (a variant has "CANCEL [/] LARIVM"). Leaf c2r (f. 22r), line 2 reads: ... DF MODO PROFICIENDI (a variant has "DE" for "DF"). Cf. GW.

Table of contents (in 2 columns, with locations identified by printed folio numbers) on leaf d10r (f. 40r).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all before leaf c2 (f. 22) wanting [i.e. De adhaerendo Deo and De remediis contra pusillanimitatem wanting].

Penn Libraries copy: leaf c2r (f. 22r), line 2 reads: ... DE MODO PROFICIENDI.

Leaf size: 268 x 196 mm.

Rubrication: initials supplied in red, light brown or red and light brown ink; one guide letter supplied in red ink; capital strokes supplied in red ink; underlines and many paragraph marks supplied in red or brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. annotations (in 2 different hands?) and marginal marks in brown ink throughout text; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; ms. signature marks supplied in brown ink at tail outer corner of leaves c2-c6 (rectos) and d1-d6 (rectos).

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of Edward B. Krumbhaar affixed to front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in quarter modern dark leather over dark green cloth.

Penn Libraries copy: some pinpoint wormholes throughout, with occasional minor damage to text; leaf c10 (f. 30) mended at inner margin; leaves dampstained at head inner corner; leaf d1 (f. 31) dampstained at tail margin.

Cited in:

Goff A-218

BM 15th cent. II, 522 (IB.9123)

GW 582

BSB-Ink. I-381

BN cat. des incun. A-134

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 881

ISTC ia00218000

OCLC:

473452169