Sacre theologie magistri... Fratris Roberti de Licio ordinis Minorum professoris opus quadragesimale per vtilissimum quod de penitencia dictum est feliciter incipit

Description

Signatures: [a-u¹⁰ x⁸ y⁶ z¹⁰ A-E¹⁰ F⁶ G¹⁰ H⁸ I-K¹⁰ L-M⁸ N¹⁰ O-P⁸ Q¹].

Title from incipit on leaf [a2v].

Imprint from colophon.

Colophon on [N10v] reads: Robertus diui francisci ex ordine scripsit. Hec tibi: qum paulus papa secund[us] erat. Ast pressit manibus hec tersis in basilea. Bernhard[us] richel. Cum michaele wensel. M. CCCC.LXXV°. fluente.

No foliation or catchwords.

Printed with 40 long lines to a full page.

Ornamental woodcut initials in Richel's section of the book.

Initial spaces with guide-letters in Richel's section of the book.

Includes indexes.

In this copy the register is bound in at the end.

Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00174000.

Indexed in: BMC III 736; Goff C-174.

Features

On leaf [a1r] is a contemporary circular painting in watercolours of St. John the Apostle on the Isle of Patmos.

The ornamental woodcut initial on leaf [a2v] is decorated in green, red, blue and yellow with green foliage extending into the margin and incorporating a caricature of a human head in green with red detail.

Other major initials are decorated alternately in red and blue, some with green detail, and many with caricatures of human heads in red with ornamentation extending down the margins.

Occasional drawings of birds and insects in the inner margins.

Paragraph markers and capital strokes supplied in red.

Underlinings in red and blue.

Some worm damage to the lower cover and text block.

Bindings

Late fifteenth-century German binding of full deerskin over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with an identical design comprising a border and frame of triple fillets containing repeating patterns of lozenges. In the inner frame and central panel the lozenges contain fleurs-de-lys. Written at the top of the upper cover in black ink manuscript is the letter L. The spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Robertus Caracciolus. Quadragesimale de pœnitentia. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection library stamp in gold. Gold-tooled in the bottom panel are the words: Basel. 1475. Also in the bottom panel written in black ink manuscript and crossed out, a number, indistinct, but possibly 2615. The book has two decorated metal clasps with plaited leather straps, not contemporary with the binding, with the catch on the upper cover. The spine has been restored where the upper cover has become separated at the joint. Size: 310 x 225mm. Leaf size: 295 x 208mm.

Provenance

Bookplate on the front pastedown: Domvs Sapientiæ Fribvrg 1759. The book belonged to the Collegium Sapientiae which formed part of the university in Freiburg im Breisgau.

In black ink manuscript at the head of leaf [a1r]: ad Collegium Sapientiæ.

Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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