anno Domini MCCCCXCVI die penultima Iulij [30 July 1496]
Call Number:
1988 834
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Summa de regimine vitae humanae
Description:
Binding: sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps set in channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beaded headbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed. Stubs, about 40 mm. wide, of the vellum ms. endleaves are tucked under strips of similar ms. glued at head and tail inside the boards but are not adhered. Covered in dark red/brown goatskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with a cross made up of fleurons on a pedestel in a central panel on the front board and a globe [?] on the back board; knotwork frames on both boards. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails, Greek workshop?, Bought in Dec. 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Bound with: Figure Biblie clarissimi uiri Fratris Antonii de Ra[m]pengolis Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Impressum Venetijs : Per Georgium de Arriuabenis Mantuanu[m], 1496 die XV. mensis Nouembris. (1988 834), and Imprint from colophon.
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., and Provenance: "2207 c. fr. O P." (ms. on t.p.) indicating ownership by Frankfurt Dominicans (Dominkanerkloster Frankfurt am Main).