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Confessionale beati Thome de Aquino.

Accession number
PML 127777
Creator
Mateusz, z Krakowa, Cardinal, approximately 1330-1410.
Object title

Confessionale beati Thome de Aquino.

Published

[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [approximately 1492-1493]

Description

[20] leaves ; 18.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1996.
Notes
Often attributed to Thomas Aquinas or Bonaventura (cf. P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes des casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen-age, Louvain, 1962; CIBN).
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from GW. Caillaut's device, leaf a1r. GW dates as about 1492.
Printed in Caillaut's types 4:94G and 17:84G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-c⁶: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Initial spaces, some with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.9 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
Modern stiff vellum over paper boards (18.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Vellum quire guards.
Variant title
De modo confitendi et puritate conscientiae.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Offrémont (Soissons), Celestines, Ste-Croix, inscription: "Cellestinorum sanctae crucis [?]," 15th/16th century (leaf a1r); Otto Vollbehr (1869-1946); his anonymous sale, Gimbel Brothers/Hammer Galleries, An important collection of incunabula, 1467-1500 (1941), no. 586 for $166.50; Bruce Ramer (bookseller); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Richard C. Ramer on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, May 1996.
Classification
Century
Department