Summa de casibus conscientiae.

Accession number: 
PML 75571
Author: 
Bartholomew, of San Concordio, 1262-1347.
Published: 
[Albi] : [Printer of Pius II, 'Epistola de remedio amoris' (H 183)], [not after 1475]
Description: 
[348] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Printer of Pius II, 'Epistola de remedio amoris' (H 183) type 1:115R.
PML Checklist and GW call this printer Printer of Aeneas Silvius.
Morgan Library copy of this book has an inscription declaring it to have been bought at Toulouse in 1475 (see Péligry, Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France, III:143).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8-10⁸; 11-13¹⁰ 14⁸ 15-22¹⁰ 23⁸; 24-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28¹⁰ 29⁶ 30¹⁰ 31⁸; 32-35¹⁰ 36-37⁸]: 348 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [37]/8 blank.
The author's surname is Granchi (GW).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
In PML dept. file is vellum manuscript bifolium, the original pastedown, with additional provenance inscription.

Binding: 
19th-century/modern vellum over stiff paper boards (29.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 2 vellum strip-clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Unidentified inscription: "M[???] Galet. 3 Setes. 3 Seties [repeated] ... 1 Seties," 16th/17th century (leaf [37]/8v). Modern foliation (from rebinding?) in lower gutter margins.

Provenance: 
Antoine Dufayet, purchase inscription, Toulouse, 1475: "Iste liber est michi anthonio de fayeto de salerno claramontensis diocesis quem emi tholose in domo magistri glaudii durandi anno domini M.o cccc.mo septuagesimoquinto in presencia sociorum meorum videlicet magistri antonii perini de montbrison [Antoine Perin of Montbrison (Loire)] magistri ymberti bennoti de ludguno [Humbert Bennot of Lyon] magistri Johannis tubicensis de sant roma de tarn [Jean Tuba(?) of Saint-Rome-de-Tarn (Occitanie)] et fratris sui videlicet domini sacriste Vabrensis in dicta domo commorancium. Dufayet" (leaf [37]/7v) (see also manuscript bifolium in dept. file, the original pastedown with the inscription: "Ce Livre est a maistre anthoine de fayet;" gift of Bernard Rosenthal, Jan. 1984); Albi Rosenthal, typed description (front endleaf 1 recto); Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, inherited by his son: John Ehrman (1920-2011), Broxbourne sale, part I, Sotheby's, 14 Nov. 1977, lot 2 to Harper for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books