Informatio notabilis [et] praeclara de arte praedicandi.

Accession number:

PML 24856.1

Published:

[Deventer] : [Richardus Pafraet], 24 March [14]79.

Description:

[14] leaves ; 25 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1927.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Informatio notabilis [et] preclara de Arte predicandi. In thematibus De tempore [et] de sanctis artificialiter deducta.
Printed in Pafraet's type 2:103G (first press).
Date from colophon (leaf [2]/6v).
Collation [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
On the various attributions of the Ars praedicandi see R.H. and M.A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons (Toronto, 1979) p.190 (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.7 x 18.6 cm
PML copy with some staining in gutter.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled black straight-grained morocco over paper boards (25.6 x 19.3 cm), bound in England.

Variant Title:

Ars praedicandi 'Quattuor sunt genera praedicationis', sive Informatio notabilis et praeclara de arte praedicandi.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red paragraph marks (C- and wedge-types with balled terminals) and capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text. Modern pencil foliation in top right corner starts at 30, ink notation "+I" (fourth fly leaf recto = Inglis?).

Provenance:

John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf marks: +E (final front fly leaf) and E+ (leaf G8r of Herolt), his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826, lot 194 to Thorpe for £1.11.6; unidentified inscription: "Barker" (front fly leaf); Henry Jeffreys Bushby (1820-1903), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, August 1927.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books