Summa de Exemplis Ac similitudinibus reru[m] Nouiter impressa

The Resource Summa de Exemplis Ac similitudinibus reru[m] Nouiter impressa

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Summa de Exemplis Ac similitudinibus reru[m] Nouiter impressa

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Encyclopedia of natural, moral, and legal knowledge, drawn up by an Italian Dominican preacher, Joannes de Sancto Geminiano, who is also known as Helwicus Teutonicus, to provide ready anecdotes or concrete illustrations ("exempla") to support the moral points of medieval sermons. Also includes a chapter on demonology. For more on the author, cf. Grabmann, M. Mittelalterliches Geisteslebe. München, 1926-36. II, p. 581
Title from caption on leaf AA1
Imprint from Goff
Colophon reads: Impressum aut[em] Venetijs per Ioa[n]ne[m] [et] Gregorium de Gregorijs fratres. Mcccclxxxxvij. die. x. Aprilis
Signatures: AAl℗ a-z€ [et]€ [con]€ [rum]€ Al♯ B-X€ Yl°
Chancery quarto, text printed in 2 columns; 46 lines, plus headline; col. width: 51 mm.; area of text: 145 (153) x 104 mm. With ornamental woodcut initials and a few initial spaces mostly with guide-letters; without catchwords. Register and printers' device at end

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000043671

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19 cm. (4to).

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[12], 392 leaves

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Not rubricated.
Contemporary ms. ownership inscription at bottom of first leaf reads: Ad vsum fr[atr]is Jacobi de Caravagio [illegible] Licentia [illegible] ipsius librarie s[anc]ti Bernardini ap[ud] carauagium. Bottom edge inscribed "S. Bernardi". Occasional contemporary ms. annotations and underlinings within the text.
Presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., prior to 21 May 1909.
Tightly bound in half modern vellum over white cloth-covered boards, with gold-stamped dark red Morocco spine label. Author's name on spine is "Gorus".
Unevenly trimmed; approximate leaf size: 182 x 130 mm. Closely trimmed with some loss of headings. Dampstaining at end.
Photostat NOT available.

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u42898

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