Tractatul[us] solemnis de arte et vero modo predica[n]di ex diversis sacroru[m] docto[rum] scripturis et principaliter sacratissimi christiane ecclesie doctoris, / Thome de Aq[ui]no ex parvo suo quoda[m] tractatulo r[e]collect[us], ubi s[e]c[un]d[um] modu[m] et formam materie presentis procedit.

Accession number:

PML 21237

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Published:

In Civitate Gebenne[n]si : Impressus per .M. Ludovicu[m] cruse al[ia]s garbini, Anno d[omi]ni M° CCCC° lxxxi° .x. septembris [10 September 1481].

Description:

[12] leaves ; 28.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [2]/4v: Explicit tractatus famosissimus de arte et vero modo predica[n]di. Sacratissimi christiane ecclesie doctoris Thome d[e] Aq[ui]no. In Civitate Gebenne[n]si Impressus Per .M. Ludovicu[m] cruse al[ia]s garbini. Anno d[omi]ni M° CCCC° lxxxi° .x. septembris.
Printed in Cruse's type 2:119G.
Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia (T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi, Paris, 1936, p.87) (CIBN).
Woodcut initials with printer's monogram LC.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁴]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Goff incorrectly gives the format as quarto.
Erroneously attributed to Aquinas. Compiled from works by Jacobus de Fusignano and that attributed to Henricus de Hassia (T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi, Paris, 1936, p.87) (CIBN).
1 column, 31 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.

Binding:

19th-century brown morocco.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: De arte et vero modo praedicandi

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red paragraph marks and capital strokes, woodcuts hand colored. Initial on leaf [1]/3r not printed and added by hand, in contemporary Flemish style. Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal correction (leaf [1]/2r) and memorial inscription below colophon (leaf [2]/4v).

Provenance:

Mechelen (Belgium), Penitents of the Third Order of S. Francis, Bethleem Chapel, inscription: "Bethleem" (leaf [1]/2r); Bernard Quaritch, collation statement, 19 Feb. 1920 (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books