Summa in virtutes cardinales et vitia illis [con]traria, eoru[m]q[ue] remedia ad partem tertia[m] libri de naturalibus exemplis, feliciter incipit.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicolaus, de Castro.

Gering, Ulrich, -1510, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Summa in virtutes cardinales et vitia illis contraria.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800.

Cardinal virtues.

Vices--Early works to 1800.

Vices.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

296 unnumbered leaves (the first and last blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Title in colophon: Summa de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus et vitiis illis contrariis

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : [Ulrich Gering and Guillermus Maynyal], [16 Aug. 1480]

Notes:

Caption title.

Edited, with a table, by Nicolaus de Castro.

"Neither the author of this Summa nor the author of the Liber de naturalibus exemplis on which it appears to be a commentary has been discovered, nor does anything further appear to be known about the 'most famous' Nicolaus de Castro"--BM 15th cent.

Colophon (leaf [288]b): Su[m]ma de quatuor virtutibus Cardinalibus et vitiis illis [con]trariis, finit feliciter. Exaratu[m]q[ue] est hoc opus studiosissime i[n] vrbe p[ar]isiana celeberrima p[er] magistru[m] Vlricu[m] Gering. et. G. Maynyal. Anno ab incarnatione [christ]i. i480. die vero. i6. Augusti.

Signatures: a-z¹⁰ A-E¹⁰ F-G⁸.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 50 lines, plus headline, to a full column; area of text: 199 (207) x 139 mm.; column width: 64 mm. Initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Leaf [289]a: Registru[m] ... incipit.

Leaf [291]a: Sequit[ur] alia tabula s[ecundu]m ordine[m] alphabeti, a Celeberrimo viro Nicolao de castro ordinis Beate Marie de monte Carmeli, theologie professore laboriosissime collecta:qui et totius su[m]me corrector eximius fuit.

Local Notes:

Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.) copy; on permanent deposit at the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Leaf size: 288 x 206 mm.

Rubrication: capital on leaf [2]a illuminated in gold, blue and maroon and colors; other capitals and paragraph-marks supplied in red or blue.

Early illegible ownership inscription on leaf a2r.

Half-bound in brown leather over green paper boards; five raised bands on spine; gold decorations in spine panels; two red morocco labels on spine with title, printer's name, and date stamped in gold; monogram "CC" stamped in gold at foot of spine.

Imperfect: first and last leaves (blank) wanting; leaves of first gathering detached at inner margin, mended and reattached with blank paper resulting in some loss of text; dampstaining at margins throughout; wormholes throughout, most pinpoint, only slightly affecting text.

Cited in:

Hain-Copinger 15173

BM 15th cent. v. 8, p. 24 (IB.39121)

BN cat. des incun. S-503

IGI 9214

ISTC no. UKBYIS00862300-E

OCLC:

84529843