Peniteas cito libell[us] iste nuncupatur tractans co[m]pendiose de penitentia et eius circumstantijs ac vitam peccatus deprauatam emendare cupientibus multum vtilis et necessarius.

Accession number:

PML 125706

Published:

Impressum Colonie : per Henricum Quentell, M.cccc.xciij. quarto ydus Iunij [10 June 1493].

Description:

[18] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf c6r: Et sic finitur p[e]n[itea]s opusculu[m] de mo[dus] penite[n]di et [con]fitendi imp[re]ssu[m] Colonie p[er] Henricu[m] Quetell anno salut[is] M.cccc.xciij. q[ua]rto ydus iunij.
Printed in Quentell's types 3:180G, 6:63G, and 7:80G.
Signatures: a-c⁶: 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Other editions of this work are entered under the heading Modus poenitendi. Attributed since the Middle Ages to Johannes de Garlandia or to Petrus Blesensis (cf. P. Michaud-Quantin, Sommes des casuistique et manuels de confession au moyen-age, Louvain, 1962, p.19). H. MacKinnon attributes to William de Montibus (Essays in medieval history presented to Bertie Wilkinson, ed. T.A. Sandquist and M.R. Powicke, Toronto, 1969, pp.40-45).
1 woodcut, Accipies, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x13 cm.

Binding:

20th-century (English?) dark-brown calf blind stamped in a pastiche of a historical style, over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

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

Provenance:

Gilbert R. Redgrave, bookplate (laid-in) and bibliographical notes (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books