Accession number
PML 101
Object title
Informatio notabilis [et] p[rae]clara De arte praedicandi.
Published
[Cologne] : [Johann Guldenschaff], Anno. .LXXIX. die .xxii. Aprilis [22 April 1479].
Description
[14] leaves ; 29 cm (4to and fol)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves, leaf [2]/6 blank.
Colophon (leaf [2]/5v): Opus preclaru[m] de Arte dicendi [et] predicandi presbiteris clericis [et] evangelizare volentibus, perutile [et] necessarium. Non solum doctis [et] ingeniosis sed mediocriter litteratis conferens viam [et] modum ad quodcu[m]q[ue] Thema magistraliter [et] artificiose populo deducendum. Explicit de quo laudetur deus in secula seculorum. Anno. .LXXIX. die .xxii. Aprilis.
On the various attributions of the Ars praedicandi see R.H. and M.A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons (Toronto, 1979) p.190 (CIBN).
Paper format: Royal quarto and chancery folio
A page-for-page reprint of the March 1479 Deventer edition, GW 2669.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 20.2 cm, heavily trimmed. Conjoint leaves [1]/1.8 in folio, the remainder in quarto format.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/6 (blank).
Morgan copy with leaves remargined at gutter, with approx. 2.5 cm of modern paper.
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Informatio notabilis [et] p[rae]clara De arte praedicandi. In thematibus De tempore [et] de sanctis artificialiter deducta Incipit.
Colophon (leaf [2]/5v): Opus preclaru[m] de Arte dicendi [et] predicandi presbiteris clericis [et] evangelizare volentibus, perutile [et] necessarium. Non solum doctis [et] ingeniosis sed mediocriter litteratis conferens viam [et] modum ad quodcu[m]q[ue] Thema magistraliter [et] artificiose populo deducendum. Explicit de quo laudetur deus in secula seculorum. Anno. .LXXIX. die .xxii. Aprilis.
On the various attributions of the Ars praedicandi see R.H. and M.A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons (Toronto, 1979) p.190 (CIBN).
Paper format: Royal quarto and chancery folio
A page-for-page reprint of the March 1479 Deventer edition, GW 2669.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 20.2 cm, heavily trimmed. Conjoint leaves [1]/1.8 in folio, the remainder in quarto format.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/6 (blank).
Morgan copy with leaves remargined at gutter, with approx. 2.5 cm of modern paper.
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Informatio notabilis [et] p[rae]clara De arte praedicandi. In thematibus De tempore [et] de sanctis artificialiter deducta Incipit.
Binding
Modern half brown goatskin over paper boards with paper sides (29.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Ars praedicandi 'Quattuor sunt genera praedicationis', sive Informatio notabilis et praeclara de arte praedicandi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
John Smythe, signature, 15th-16th century (leaf [2]/5v); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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