Dialogus rationis et conscientiae de frequenti usu communionis.
Mateusz,z Krakowa, Cardinal,approximately 1330-1410.
Printer of the Catholicon,printer.
Tufton, Richard,Sir,1813-1871,former owner.StEdNL
Sotheby & Co. (London, England),bookseller.StEdNL
[Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon,
not before 1469]
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Two issues, A on paper manufactured about 1460 and B manufactured 1465-69, but with identical typesetting, are distinguished by Th. Gerardy in Gb Jb 1980 pp.30-37 and P. Needham in BSA 76 (1982) pp.411-417. On this, and on the printer, see the articles "zur Catholicon-Forschung" in Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte 13 (1988) pp.105-232, and L. Hellinga in Gb Jb 1989 pp.47-96 and in the Book Collector (Spring 1992) pp. 28-54.
Unsigned.
BM 15th cent.,
GW
ISTC
Stillwell
Goff
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Large initial supplied in red with decorative penwork forming partial border on recto of first leaf. Capitals rubricated and the names of the speakers supplied in red.
Catalogue cutting from the sale of Sir Richard Tufton, Paris, April 1873 pasted to recto of back free endpaper. Sold at Sotheby's on 26 July 1937. Bought by the Library from Quaritch for £400 from the Lauriston Castle Fund 6 July 1943.
19th-century red morocco with gilt rolled geometric border on front and back boards, gilt rolled turn-ins and marbled endpapers.
Lord's Supper
Germany Mainz.