[Tractatus de materiis diversis indulgentiarum]

Description

Signatures: A⁶ B¹⁰ C-D⁶ E⁸ F¹⁰.


Imprint from ISTC.


Printed in two columns with 41 or 42 lines to a full column.


Initial spaces, no guide-letters.


Access is unrestricted.


Indexed in: Goff P541; HR 12863; IBE 4564; IGI 7680; IBP 4387; Sajó-Soltész 2682; Nentwig 326; Voull(Trier) 213; Sack(Freiburg) 2847; Hummel-Wilhelmi 512, 513; Sheppard 2460; BMC III 760.

Features

Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript.


Major initials supplied and decorated in red.


Paragraph markers and capital strokes supplied in red.


Bindings


Binding of full pigskin over wooden boards. The upper cover is blind-tooled with a border and frame of quadruple fillets containing rows of leaf-shaped motifs and lozenges, possibly containing a winged-bird, in each corner. The central panel contains two diagonal bands blind-tooled with stylised foliage and running animals, possibly dogs, and between the bands there are lozenges containing stylied foliage. The lower cover is decorated with a similar border and frame but the central panel contains thin diagonal bands containing gothic script, now indistinct, and in between these bands are lozenges containing fleurs-de-lys. The designs on the upper and lower covers are much worn. The spine has three raised bands. Written directly onto the second panel of the spine in black ink manuscript are the words: Directorium Sacerdotale - Preffer [sic]. In the third panel is the Brotherton Collection library stamp in black. There is evidence of there having been a library label at the base of the
spine and of writing at the head of the spine, now indistinct. The upper and lower covers are attached with a single decorated metal clasp with a pigskin strap, the catch on the upper cover. Size: 315 x 230mm. Leaf size: 302 x 215mm.


Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Pfeffer de Wydenberg, J: Directoriu[m] sacerdotale, 1482. -- 2. Pfeffer de Wydenberg, J: [Tractatus de materiis diversis indulgentiarum], c.1482.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first printed leaf [*]1r: Carthusiæ In Buxheim.


At the base of the second printed leaf [*]2r is the book stamp of the Carthusian library at the Reichskartause Buxheim (Buxheim Charterhouse) near Memmingen in Bavaria. After the secularisation of the Charterhouse, the library was transferred to the Counts of Ostein, and then inherited by the Counts of Waldbott von Bassenheim in 1810. This book formed part of that transfer since it was listed in the catalogue (item no. 2873) when the Waldbott-Bassenheim library was sold in 1883


Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.


Bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Pavl Schmidt. The book was in the possession of Paul Schmidt (1834-1907), a Strassburg collector of incunabula.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the first printed leaf. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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