Incipit summula confessionis utilissima : in qua agitur quomodo de habere debeat confessor erga penitentem in confessionibus audiendis
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipit summula confessionis utilissima : in qua agitur quomodo de habere debeat confessor erga penitentem in confessionibus audiendis
Other titles: Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio; De restitutionibus; Summa Confessionum. De restitutionibus; Confessionale domini Antonini archiepiscopi Florentini
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1474/ANT
Creator(s): Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)
Additional creator(s): Johann von Köln (1471-1491) (Printer); Manthen, Johann (1471-1481) (Printer); Moon, G Washington (1823-1909) (Former owner)
Related people: Johann; Manthen, Johann; Moon, G. Washington
Publisher: Johan[n]is de Colonia agripinensi, at Johannis Manthen de Gherretshem... impressio[n]i expone[re] conati sunt Uenetiis; Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen
Publication city: Uenetiis [Venice]
Date(s): M.cccc.lxxiiij. [1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [102] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35718
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007632149705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Title from incipit.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf [101]r: reads: Explicit vtilissima [con]fessio[n]is su[m]mula a reuerendissimo in christo patre fratre Antonino Archiep[iscop]o Florentino edita, cuius vtilitatis p[er]textu Johan[n]is de Colonia agripinensi, at Johannis Manthen de Gherretshem eo[rum] ductu [et] impensa, ea[n]de[m] impressio[n]i expone[re] conati sunt Uenetiis, Mcccclxxiiij.
Printed in two columns with 40 lines to a full column.
No signatures.
Catchwords on versos.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00798000.
Indexed in: Goff A798; BMC V 225.
Features
The major initial on the first printed leaf is supplied in blue and decorated in red with pen ornamentation extending down the inner margin.
Major initials supplied in red throughout.
The first paragraph marker is supplied in blue, all others in red.
Leaf numbers added in early ink manuscript at the upper right of rectos of leaves 1-69 only.
Note in pencil manuscript on the verso of the front free endpaper, possibly in the hand of G. Washington Moon: Perfect.
Pencil manuscript note on the verso of the front free endpaper, possibly in the hand of G. Washington Moon: This book was published in the very year in which the first printed book was published in England, viz. Caxton's 'Game of Chess' 1474.
Note in pencil manuscript on the verso of the front free endpaper in an unidentified hand: memo - set up his press in England 1476?.
Pencil manuscript note on the verso of the back free endpaper detailing the presence of watermarks.
This copy is missing the first and last blank leaves.
Bindings
Sixteenth-century binding of full vellum over pasteboard. The spine has four raised bands. The title is written in ink manuscript directly onto the spine in the second panel: D'Antonini Summula confessionis. Written directly onto the spine in the fifth panel is the date: 1474. Size: 230 x 176mm. Leaf size: 220 x 160mm.
Provenance
Pasted on the verso of the front free endpaper is a cutting from a sale catalogue with a brief description of the edition by the English bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown bearing the motto Astra castra, numen lumen, with the autograph of the English writer G. Washington Moon (1823-1909) below.
Armorial bookplate of The University Library Leeds on the recto of the front free endpaper.
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