Dieta salutis a beato bonave[n]tura ultimate emendatu[m] ac parisius noviter i[m]pressum.

Accession number: 
PML 79752.1
Author: 
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.
Published: 
Parisius impressus : [Félix Baligault, for] Francoys Regnault, Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo vicesimasecunda die mensis Augusti [22 August 1500]
Description: 
[1], ii-cxvi, [36] leaves ; 14.5 cm (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1988.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with Regnault's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t8r: Sancti Bonaventure doctoris eximii de dieta salutis unacum tractatu de resurrectione hominis a peccato et preparatione ad gratiam/ tractatus emendatus nuper et recognitus: cum tabula q[uam] acuratissime co[n]fecta feliciter finit. Parisius impressus. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo vicesimasecunda die mensis Augusti.
GW describes a variant explicit with Regnault's name.
Printed in Baligault's types 2:64G and 14:112G.
Signatures: a-t⁸: 152 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
The true author of the Diaeta is Guillelmus de Lavicea or Lanicia, and of the Devota contemplatio Johannes de Caulibus (Hillard 453).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.8 x 9 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century French quarter paper over pasteboard (14.5 x 10 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Dieta salutis a beato Bonaventura ultimate emendatum ac Parisius noviter impressum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minimal underlining in text.

Provenance: 
Champlitte (Haute-Saône), Capuchins, inscription: "Ad usum Cap. Conventus Champlet" (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis); C[laude?]. Signerre, signatures, late-16th century (leaves a1r and t8v of Diaeta saluts, leaf a1r of De summo bono, and leaf a1r of De venerabili sacramento), who gave the volume to: Blasius Alteriet of Percey-le-Grand (Haute-Saône), inscriptions (leaf t8v of Diaeta salutis and leaf m8v of De summo bono); Antoine Alteriet, inscription: "Anthoine Alt[eriet]," abraded (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis) and possibly monogram: AA (leaf i4v of Auctoritates Aristotelis); unidentified inscription (shelf mark?): 155a (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis); unidentified book label, removed (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, July 1988.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Reversed leather bindings (Binding)
Pasteboard (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books