De arte predica[n]di.

Accession number: 
PML 101
Published: 
[Cologne : Johann Guldenschaff], 22 April [14]79.
Description: 
[14] leaves ; 29 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves, leaf [2]/6 blank.
Colophon (leaf [2]/5v): Opus preclaru[m] de Arte dicendi [et] predicandi Presbiteris Clericis [et] evangelizare volentibus, perutile [et] necessarium. Non solum doctis [et] ingeniosis sed mediocriter litteratis conferens viam [et] modum ad quodcu[m]q[ue] Thema magistraliter [et] artificiose populo deducendum. Explicit de quo laudetur deus in secula seculorum. Anno. .LXXIX. die .xxii. Aprilis.
On the various attributions of the Ars praedicandi see R.H. and M.A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons (Toronto, 1979) p.190 (CIBN).
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 20.2, heavily trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/6 (blank).
PML copy with leaves rehinged with approx. 2.5 cm of modern paper at gutter.
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
The format is 4⁰, not f⁰ (CIBN A-616).
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Informatio notabilis [et] p[rae]clara De arte praedicandi. In thematibus De tempore [et] de sanctis artificialiter deducta Incipit.

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin over paper boards with paper sides (29.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

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

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
John Smythe, signature, 15th-16th century (leaf [2]/5v); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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