Details

Subject(s)

• Canon law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Casuistry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

• Tornielli, Girolamo, -1508 [Browse]

Printer

• Le Bourgeois, Jean, active 1488-1499 [Browse]

Former owner

• Mesnager [Browse]
• Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Sées (Sées, France) [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Incunabula—France—Rouen—1495 [Browse]

Notes

• "Probably reprinted from the Lyons edition of 1494 (Gesamtkatalog 1936). The wording of the colophon derives from Arrivabene's Venice edition, 1492 ..."--BM 15th cent.
• Imprint from ISTC.
• Colophon: Explicit su[m]ma angelica de casib[us] co[n]scientie per fratre[m] Angelu[m] de Clauasio co[m]pilata maxima cu[m] dilige[n]tia reuisa [et] fideli studio emendata sicut ip[su]m opus per se satis attestabitur. Rothomagi impressa per Iohannem Le Bourgoys eadem in vrbe [com]morantem. Anno D[omi]ni M. CCCC. nonagesimoqui[n]to die v[er]o penultima Ianuarij.
• Signatures: pi⁸ [Maltese cross]¹² a-r⁸ [r rotunda]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ x-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-X⁸ ²A-M⁸.
• Lower case signing series includes both forms of "r" and "s" and both "v" and "u"; first upper case series in same Gothic face as text; second upper case series signed in closed Gothic type. Leaf d4 is signed c4, k2 signed k4, and n2 signed n4.
• Leaf CCCLXX is numbered CCCLXXIIII, CCCCLXIII numbered CCCCLXVIII.
• Leaves printed on rectos and versos.
• Text printed in two columns, except for Tornielli's letter, printed in one column ([1v-3r]), and the first table, in three columns ([3v-6r]). 46 lines and foliation. Marginal paragraph numbers. Types: 120 G., title and headings; 63 G.A few capital spaces. Lombards.
• Woodcut printer's device on last leaf.
• Includes prefatory letter of Hieronymus Tornielus.

Binding note

HSVR copy: Contemporary calf over wooden boards, covers simply decorated with double fillets forming a panel and central saltire pattern.

Provenance

HSVR copy: Contemporary ownership inscription on title page from the Benedictine monastery of St. Martin: Mon[aste]rii Sancti Mart[ini] [S]ag[iensis] ordinis Sancti Bened[icti] cata[logo] inscriptus (Sées, France); Mesnager, signature at end of tables; early faded inscription on back flyleaf noting a passage from the text.

References

• Incunabula short title catalogue ia00724500
• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries (supplement), A-724a
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 8, page 394 (IA. 43940)
• Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-291
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 1937

Place name(s)

France Rouen.

Title in BM 15th cent

• Summa de casibus conscientiae

Title in ISTC

• Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae

OCLC

402570438

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