Sacre theologie magistri ... Fratris Roberti de Licio ordinis Minoru[m] professoris Opus quadragesimale per vtilissimum quod de penitencia dictum est feliciter incipit.
Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495, author.; Benckeln, Johann, former owner.; Leiningen family library, former owner.; Churton, William Ralph, 1836 or 1837-1897, former owner.; Butler, Charles, 1821-1910, former owner.; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.; Richel, Bernhard, -1482, printer.; Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.; Abtei Amorbach, former owner.
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Sacre theologie magistri ... Fratris Roberti de Licio ordinis Minoru[m] professoris Opus quadragesimale per vtilissimum quod de penitencia dictum est feliciter incipit.
Uniform title
Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia
Created/published
[Basel] : Ast pressit manibus hec tersis in Basilea Bernhard[us] Richel, cum Michaele Wensel, 1475 fluente.
Description
[722] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495, author.
Benckeln, Johann, former owner.
Leiningen family library, former owner.
Churton, William Ralph, 1836 or 1837-1897, former owner.
Butler, Charles, 1821-1910, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Richel, Bernhard, -1482, printer.
Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Abtei Amorbach, former owner.
Benckeln, Johann, former owner.
Leiningen family library, former owner.
Churton, William Ralph, 1836 or 1837-1897, former owner.
Butler, Charles, 1821-1910, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Richel, Bernhard, -1482, printer.
Wenssler, Michael, active 1472-1497, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Abtei Amorbach, former owner.
Note
Title from incipit (leaf [a]2v).
Imprint from colophon, in verse (leaf [N]10v).
Signatures: [a-u]¹⁰, [x]⁸, [y]⁶, [z]¹⁰, [A-E]¹⁰, [F]⁶, [G]¹⁰, [H]⁸, [I-K]¹⁰, [L-M]⁸, [N]¹⁰, [O-P]⁸, [Q]¹.
Woodcut capitals and capital spaces with guide letters in Richel's section of the book.
Includes register.
Includes indexes.
Imprint from colophon, in verse (leaf [N]10v).
Signatures: [a-u]¹⁰, [x]⁸, [y]⁶, [z]¹⁰, [A-E]¹⁰, [F]⁶, [G]¹⁰, [H]⁸, [I-K]¹⁰, [L-M]⁸, [N]¹⁰, [O-P]⁸, [Q]¹.
Woodcut capitals and capital spaces with guide letters in Richel's section of the book.
Includes register.
Includes indexes.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 10:1)
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-174
GW 6070
BM 15th cent., III, p. 736 (IB.37161)
GW 6070
BM 15th cent., III, p. 736 (IB.37161)
Place of creation/publication
Switzerland -- Basel.
Item Details
Call number
INC C160
Folger-specific note
Lacks leaf [Q]1 described in GW with register at end. Initials in alternate red and blue (some of the woodcut initials are also rubricated); initial on leaf [y]6v with drawing, margin extension and red penwork infill; paragraph marks in alternate red and blue in the table of contents and in text in the 1st gatherings; capital strokes in red in the same gatherings; additions of headlines in same red paint with numbering of sermons in gatherings [e] to [h]. A few early manuscript notes in brown ink; numbering of sermons added by hand on recto of each leaf; manicules, mostly in the 1st chapter of sermon 26, with addition of headline "De extremo iudicio ser. xxvi". Top of leaf [a]1, bearing inscription (mark of ownership?), has been cut out; early inscriptions on leaf [a]1r "... liber mgr̃i Io' Benckelnj [...?] quond[am] plebam [...?]", and "Ex Bib monarij Amor. Ord. S. Benedicti"; bookstamp "Fürstl. Leining. Hof-Bibliothek"; pencilled note on front flyleaf referring to the Sotheby sale of 24 Feb. 1898 (no. 160 in the sale catalog of the Canon W.R. Churton at that date). Contemporary brown sheepskin German binding blind tooled, with brass bosses, edge guards and remains of fluted clasps; stamps of the symbols of the 4 Evangelists, pierced heart, rosettes, and fleur-de-lis. Cf. Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, 10:1; conjugate leaves x1-x8, x4-x5, and y1-y6 bear impression of a damp coarse linen cloth centered over the text; manuscript fragments used as pastedowns; vellum guards inside of some gatherings; repaired; in a tailored box. Bookplate of Charles Butler (no. 653 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, April 1911); bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.