[Bulla de reformatione Confraternitatis Hospitalis S. Spiritus].
Publisher: Johann Besicken
Published: 1478
Place of publication: [Rome
Language: lat
Subjects: Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia (Rome, Italy); Catholic hospitals -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Sixtus, Episcopus, servus servorum Dei, ad perpetuam rei memoriam illius qui pro dominici salvatione gregis in ara crucis in pretium immolari non erubuit ...
Notes: Goff S-543
Reichling 1628
Untitled, without imprint. Title from Reichling, imprint from Goff.
Text begins: Sixtus, Ep[isco]pus, seruus seruo[rum] Dei, ad p[er]petua[m] rei memoria[m] illius q[ui] pro d[omi]nici saluat[i]o[n]e gregis in ara crucis i[n] pretiu[m] i[m]molari no[n] erubuit ...
38 lines; type 87G (version A illustrated in BM 15th cent.).
Reichling attributes this incunabulum to the press of Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, Rome, who used type indistinguishable from Besicken's. The woodcut capital on p. [1] is Besicken's: a black-ground capital with delicate branchwork, measuring 17 x 15 mm., described in BM 15th cent., IV, p. 139 (Haebler lists it as category "g" under Besicken's initials; the paragraph mark in this type is Haebler's rubric category [delta]).
Signatures: [1]⁴.
LC copy: gift of John Davis Batchelder, 1936.