Precordiale deuotorum
Publisher: Johann Prüss
Published: 1489
Place of publication: Impressum Arg[e]n[tinae]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Devotional literature; Early works to 1800; Meditations
Other titles: Precordiale devotorum; Praecordiale sacerdotum; Praecordiale devotorum
Work titles: Praecordiale devotorum
Notes: Attributed to Jacobus Philippi. Cf. ISTC. See also M. Viller, "Le Praecordiale sacerdotum de Jacques Philippi,"in the "Revue d'ascétique et de mystique," 11 (1930), p. 375-395.

Place and date of publication from colophon; printer from Goff and ISTC.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-T⁸ V¹².

The woodcut, page [2], is of a priest kneeling before an altar.

The digital surrogate of the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt (Main) copy of this edition shows a 2nd woodcut, of the Crucifixion, on page [1], beneath the title (perhaps printed or stamped in later). Cf. ISTC.

22 lines plus headlines on rectos. Initial spaces with guide letters. Types: 7:156 (Title); 8:80 (text).

Incunabula short title catalogue ip00952000

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum 13318

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-952

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 1, p. 123 (IA 1665)

Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries and German books printed in other countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 714

Harman, M. Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (1979), 791

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M33154

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 1, page 123 (IA. 1665)

Inscription on t.p.: Liber Bibliothecae regalis monasaterij S. Petri Erfordiae; bookplate: Bibliotheque Bechtel.

Gatherings B and C bound in reverse order; 2nd-41st leaves foliated 1-40 in contemporary ms.; notes in the same hand on A8v, B8v, C1r, and C8v refer to the misbound gatherings; rubricated throughout; BOOKDEALER'S DESCRIPTION, WITH DETAILED DESCRIPTION, OF BINDING, RUBRICATION, AND PROVENANCE, REMOVED TO BIBLIOGRAPHICAL FILE.

Bound with: Zerbolt, Gerard. De spiritualibus ascensionibus (Strasbourg, ca. 1490).

Bound in contemporary blind-stamped, red-stained sheep (or deerskin?) over wooden boards; bound in Erfurt at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Peter and Paul; gatherings B and C bound in reverse order; remains of single leather fore-edge clasp; metal catch-pieces; 5 holes in back cover for bosses; 10 original dyed parchment index tabs, one preserving its terminal leather knob; 2 undyed tabs marking the misbound quires; endpapers from 14th- or 15th-century theological ms. on vellum, marginal ms. notes on endpapers.