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Attributed name:
Petrus de Palude, Patriarch of Jerusalem -1342  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Subject:
Catholic Church  Search this
Physical description:
[512] pages ; 29 cm in box 31 cm (folio)
Type:
Sermons
Early works to 1800
Specimens
Incunabula
Date:
1489
Notes:
Incipit (leaf c1 recto) reads: Incipiunt sermones notabiles atq[ue] perutiles de sanctis per circulu[m] anni, quib[us] ab editore suo doctore [et] predicatore famosissimo nomen vt Thesaurus nouus intitulent[ur] inditu[m] est
Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf P7 recto), which reads: Opus perutile sermonu[m] de sanctis p[er] circulum anni Thesaurus nouus nuncupat[us] impressum Argentine p[er] Martinu[m] Flach anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxix. finit feliciter
Wrongly attributed to Petrus de Palude in some editions
Leaves printed on both sides; 53 lines per page
Text in double columns
Signatures: a-b⁶ c-h⁸·⁶ i-m⁶ n-q⁸·⁶ r-t⁶ v⁸ x-z⁶ A-D⁸·⁶ E-F⁶ G-M⁸·⁶ N-P⁸
Leaves b6 and P8 are blank; leaf P8 wanting in Dibner Library copy
Guide-letters
Includes index
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5426
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-514
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 2976
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 684
SCDIRB copy 39088007565807 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner
SCDIRB copy has handwritten note on title page: FF. Min. Reform. Brixinae ad S. Elisabetham, G. 37 in folio
SCDIRB copy is rubricated throughout; illuminated initial on leaf c1 recto
SCDIRB copy has printed leaves from Leonardus de Utino's 1474 edition of Sermones de sanctis (Augsburg: St. Ulrich und Afra) used as pastedown endpapers. The front pastedown is page 727 of the text, part of the sermon "In festo decollationis sancti Iohannis baptiste sermo." The rear pastedown is page 744, "In festo nativitatis gloriose virginis Marie sermo"
SCDIRB copy is bound in contemporary wooden boards; raised bands; clasps and leather covering wanting. In modern brown buckram box, with binder's title: Petrus Paludanus. Sermones. 1489
Topic:
Christian saints  Search this
Sermons, Latin  Search this
Rubrication  Search this
Illumination of books and manuscripts  Search this
Incunabula  Search this
Call number:
BX1756 .A2 1489
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_453667