Manuale confessorum metric[u]m : opus vtiq[ue] [con]mendabile [et] succintu[m] ex diuersis autenticis doctoribus studiose collectu[m] ...Hermannus, de Sittard.anno M.CCC.xcviij in Martio [i.e. 21 Mar. 1498]Authorship attributed to Hermannus Zittart, penitentiary of the Archbishop of Cologne, in Kaeppeli, T. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 1883. Goff M-213 gives the GW form of the name as Hermannus de Sittard.Binding: contemporary pigskin-backed wooden boards, one clasp and catch; medieval ms. paste-downs at front and back from a German ninth-cent. Latin Bible (texts of Jeremiah 6:10-13 and 6:28-7:3).Bought in Feb. 1995; the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.Few spaces, with guide-letters, left for capitals; other capitals printed. Rubricated throughout. Printer's full-page device on K6v and M6v; both impressions have coat-of-arms supplied in red in lower shield. Few ms. notes.Imperfect: K7-8 and L⁴ wanting.Imprint from colophon on final leaf; colophon on leaf 180r gives precise day.Provenance: "2207 c. fr. O P." (ms. on t.p.) indicating ownership by Frankfurt Dominicans (Dominkanerkloster Frankfurt am Main).text