Accession number
PML 198699.4
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title
Confessionale seu libellus optimus beati Thome de Aquino: de modo co[n]fitendi: [et] de puritate co[n]scientie cuilibet Confessori et confiteri volenti perutilis et necessarius.
Published
Colonie : Martinus de Werdena, M.ccccc viij [1508].
Description
[24] leaves : 2 woodcuts ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Colophon (leaf [f4]): "Impressus est iam emendatus Colonie p[er] Martinu[m] de werdena: prope domu[m] Consulatus: in vico Burgensi (vel: die Burgerstraes) co[m]morantem. Anno a natiuitate domini. M.ccccc viij. in profesto Corporis Christi."
Signatures: A-F⁴: 24 leaves.
Woodcut of the Vigin and child with St Anne, leaf A1r and Accipies woodcut, leaf F4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Colophon (leaf [f4]): "Impressus est iam emendatus Colonie p[er] Martinu[m] de werdena: prope domu[m] Consulatus: in vico Burgensi (vel: die Burgerstraes) co[m]morantem. Anno a natiuitate domini. M.ccccc viij. in profesto Corporis Christi."
Signatures: A-F⁴: 24 leaves.
Woodcut of the Vigin and child with St Anne, leaf A1r and Accipies woodcut, leaf F4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports (2 double and 2 single) by the Einhorn IIIa bindery (EBDB w003108, southern Germany, active 1478-1514). Manuscript leaf from 12th-century German martyrology, 2-4 August as front pastedown, and plain paper rear pastedown; yellow edges. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant title
Libellus de modo confitendi et poenitendi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (same in all parts of Sammelband). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified contemporary shelfmark: II G 5 and contents inscription (fore edge) and inscription: "Caspar" (top edge); Alexandre and Elaine Rosenberg, Alexandre Rosenberg bookplate (designed by Picasso) (front pastedown), Rosenberg sale, Christie's NY, 23 April 2021, lot 85, to: Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
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