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Libellus de modo poenitendi et confitendi.

Accession number
PML 20618
Object title

Libellus de modo poenitendi et confitendi.

Uniform title
Modus poenitendi.
Published

Antwerp : Gerard Leeu, 28 Jan. 1485.

Description

(4to)

Notes
Other editions of this work, also known from its incipit as Poeniteas cito, are entered under the heading Poenitentionarius. Attributed since the Middle Ages to Johannes de Garlandia or to Petrus Blesensis (cf. P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes des casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen-age, Louvain, 1962, p.19). H. MacKinnon attributes to William de Montibus (Essays in medieval history presented to Bertie Wilkinson, ed. T.A. Sandquist and M.R. Powicke, Toronto, 1969, pp.40-45).
Binding
18th-19th-century hard-grained red morocco, gilt-tooled.
Variant title
Checklist title: Libellus de modo confitendi et poenitendi
Provenance
John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1142; Bernard Quaritch, Rough List, No. 70, 20 Jan. 1885, lot 286; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Quaritch, July 1919.
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Department