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De modo vivendi omnium fidelium.

Accession number
PML 30780.3
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title

De modo vivendi omnium fidelium.

Published

[Southern Netherlands? : Printer of the 'Mensa Philosophica', about 1487]

Description

[30] leaves ; 21 cm. (4to)

Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Incipit tractatus Ca[n]cellarii parisiensis de modo vivendi omnium fidelium.
Assigned by Kronenberg to the press of L'Oraison du S. Esprit, by Oates and HPT to that of Mensa philosophica. Neither press has been located, but Mensa philosophica may have been at Antwerp or Louvain.
Printed in type 1:83G of the eponymous press.
Dated to about 1487 based on type evidence.
Collation: a-c⁸ d⁶: 30 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 13.4 cm.
Binding
See PML 30780.1.
Variant title
De remediis contra pusillanimitatem, ac De tentationibus diaboli
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and green lombards (with alternate penwork decoration on leaves a5v and b8r), red paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes (all works in volume rubricated the same). Annotations: A few marginal notations in text and nota bene marks.
Provenance
See PML 30780.1.
Classification
Century
Department