Opusculorum no[m]i[n]a aureus libellus co[n]tra beneficiorum reseruationes nuperrime editus et impressus
Subtitle: Epistola luciferi ad malos principes ecclesiasticos
Contributors: Marchant, Guy, printer; Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, publisher; Oresme, Nicole, approximately 1320-1382, attributed name; Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?, attributed name; Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397, attributed name; Peter Ceffons, of Clairvaux, attributed name
Publisher: [Guy Marchant for Jean Petit]
Published: 1498
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: lat
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical Benefices
Other titles: Opusculorum nomina aureus libellus contra beneficiorum reseruationes nuperrime editus et impressus; Epistola Luciferi ad malos principes ecclesiasticos.; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Libellus contra beneficorum reservationes
Notes: Imprint and date from Incunabula short title catalogue.

With the device of Guy Marchant on title page; another issue has the device of Jehan Petit (Konrad Haebler, Verlegermarken des Jean Petit, 1914, no. II; Philip Renouard, Les marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siecles, 1926, no. 882). This issue has a woodcut on a1 verso; in the other issue, is has apparently been masked, but appears in a blind impression and can be identified with the inked copies.

The "Epistola Luciferi" has been Variously attributed to Nicolas Oresme, Pierre d'Ailly, and Heinrich von Langenstein (references in O. Clemen, "Bibliographica zur Reformationsgeschichte. VII. Der Teufelsbrief von 1351 in der Reformationszeit," Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen 24 [1907], 594), and to Peter Ceffons, of Clairvaux (D. Trapp, "Peter Ceffons of Clairvaux," Recherches de theologie ancienne et medievale 24 [1957], 115-117).

Signatures: áı.

Chancery quarto; a2 verso: 40 lines, 152 x 90 mm; types: 200G (title and headings), 76G2 (text); woodcut printer's device and illustration.

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, A-356 (Marchant only)

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A916

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00916000

cataloged 20190731 jm

condition reviewed 20190913 cl

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.120: leaf dimensions: 199 x 138 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.120 with dealers' prices and codes at front and back. Sticker with "476" on front pastedown. Early inscription on a1 verso mostly washed away. Acquired in September, 1939.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.120 bound in modern brown goatskin. Title stamped in gilt on cover and spine.