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JOHANNES DE BROMYARD (d. ca.1352). Summa praedicantium. Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1484.
Median 2° (356x243mm). Collation: I:[1-48.10 512 6-418 42-456.8], II:[110 2-38 410 56 6-78 8-1510 168 17-1810 19-208 216 22-348 356 3610 37-388] (I:1/1 blank, 1/2r tabula vocalis, 1/2v tabula realis, 5/1 blank, 5/2r prologue, 5/3r Summa praedicantium, part I, 45/8 blank, II:1/1 blank, 1/2r part II, 38/7v explicit, 38/8 blank). 361 (of 364, without first blank, fos. 28/3.6 supplied in contemporary manuscript); 322 (of 324, without first and final blank) leaves. 52-55 lines, double column, four columns on I:1/2r only. Type: 1:185G (headings, head-lines, marginal headings in table), 3:92a (text and marginal notes). 2- to 14-line initial spaces, one initial on I:5/2r added in pen and ink. (Lower half of final blank of vol. I torn away, some staining, worming sometimes affecting a few letters in first and final quires of both volumes, small tear in II: fo.188 affecting a few letters.) Contemporary London binding, calf over wooden boards, blindstamped with rolls and stamp (Oldham roll AN.g(1) and ornament B(3)), modern pastedowns (binding wormed, worn and repaired). Provenance: marginal annotations in a contemporary English hand; Nathan Comfort Starr, Cambridge, Mass., booklabel dated 1923.
FIRST EDITION of the main work of this important English Dominican in a contemporary English binding. As its name indicates, the Summa praedicantium is a manual for preachers containing a huge amount of material arranged alphabetically. HC *3993; BMC III, 747 (IC. 37415); Goff J-260; Pellechet 3025; van der Haegen, Amerbach 16 (2)
Median 2° (356x243mm). Collation: I:[1-48.10 512 6-418 42-456.8], II:[110 2-38 410 56 6-78 8-1510 168 17-1810 19-208 216 22-348 356 3610 37-388] (I:1/1 blank, 1/2r tabula vocalis, 1/2v tabula realis, 5/1 blank, 5/2r prologue, 5/3r Summa praedicantium, part I, 45/8 blank, II:1/1 blank, 1/2r part II, 38/7v explicit, 38/8 blank). 361 (of 364, without first blank, fos. 28/3.6 supplied in contemporary manuscript); 322 (of 324, without first and final blank) leaves. 52-55 lines, double column, four columns on I:1/2r only. Type: 1:185G (headings, head-lines, marginal headings in table), 3:92a (text and marginal notes). 2- to 14-line initial spaces, one initial on I:5/2r added in pen and ink. (Lower half of final blank of vol. I torn away, some staining, worming sometimes affecting a few letters in first and final quires of both volumes, small tear in II: fo.188 affecting a few letters.) Contemporary London binding, calf over wooden boards, blindstamped with rolls and stamp (Oldham roll AN.g(1) and ornament B(3)), modern pastedowns (binding wormed, worn and repaired). Provenance: marginal annotations in a contemporary English hand; Nathan Comfort Starr, Cambridge, Mass., booklabel dated 1923.
FIRST EDITION of the main work of this important English Dominican in a contemporary English binding. As its name indicates, the Summa praedicantium is a manual for preachers containing a huge amount of material arranged alphabetically. HC *3993; BMC III, 747 (IC. 37415); Goff J-260; Pellechet 3025; van der Haegen, Amerbach 16 (2)