tin00179500

Text-inc Id:

tin00179500

Bod-inc Id:

N-080

Headings:

Nider, Johannes Manuale confessorum.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Nider, Johannes: Manuale confessorum. Incipit: ‘[Q]uoniam iuxta beati Gregorii in suo Pastorali sententiam regimen animarum est ars artium . . .’ Explicit: in sentencia et scripto. Et tantum de confessorum . . .sufficit See N‑078.
2. [c6v] [Author's colophon.]
3. [c7r] [List of contents.]

Imprint:

[Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz, Michael Friburger, about Nov. 1474.] Folio. Printed on the same paper as the Nider, Praeceptorium, of 9 Nov. 1474 (with which it is commonly bound) in one of the Paris BnF copies; a different setting from the edition of 1 Mar. 1473/4 (CIBN).

Collation:

[a b¹⁰ c⁸]. Type: 90 G. 28 leaves, the last blank. 45 lines, two columns ([a1r]). Type area: 203 ×146 mm. ([a1r]). Capital spaces. Leaf [a1r]: ‘Eximij ſacre theologie profeſſoris fra | tris iohannis nyder ordinis p̄dicatorū | manuale confeſſoꝝ / ad inſtructionē ſpi- | ritualiū paſtorū! feliciter incipit. || [Q]Voniam iuxta beati grego | rij in ſuo paſtorali ſnīam . . .'; [c6v], colophon: ‘Eximij ſacre theologie ꝓfeſſoris / fra | tris iohānis nyder ordinis p̄dicatoꝝ | manuale ɂfeſſoꝝ ad ſpiritualiū pa- | ſtorum inſtructionē! feliciter finit.'; [c7r]: ‘Capitula huius libri . . .'; [c7v], col. 1, l. 27: ‘Finis felix'.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: in00179500 H 11839; Pr 7838; CIBN N‑127 (II); Sheppard 6084-5. LCN: 14468675

Copies:

1. N-080(1) Copy Bound with:
   1. Johannes Nider, Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio decalogi. Paris: Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz, Michael Friburger, 9 Nov. 1474 (N‑092). Binding: Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with two metal catches on the lower board and remains of clasps hanging from the upper board. ‘7' across the head of the fore-edge and manuscript title along the fore-edge. Triple fillets form an intersecting double frame. Within the outer frame a repeated square double-headed eagle stamp. The inner rectangle is decorated with a repeated lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis stamp. Rebacked. Size: 330 × 245 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 327 × 232 mm. Two inscriptions in English in a sixteenth-century hand on [c8r]: ‘Large volumes greate matters doth it containe. The greatest head they saye hath littell witt. Yett I may saye great heads have mickell brayne . . . Great heades exell them both in witt and skill'; 6 lines, and on [c8v]: ‘This moothe doth make me to laffe, for then I think of it a dry stick or a staffe . . . a boy with a drie stick will never have done'; 16 lines. Early running chapter headings. Provenance: Old shelfmarks ‘L‑Z‑11' and ‘M‑E‑10' crossed out, and ‘G‑S(?)-16' in brown ink on front parchment endleaf. Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 293(2).