[M]ulto[rum] tam clerico[rum] q[uam] laico[rum] querela e[st] non modica. Occupacio grauis et questio dubiosa. Quomodo quis se habere debeat in celbrando uel co[m]municando ...
Publisher: Printer of the Catholicon (Johann Gutenberg?)
Published: 1460
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Lord's Supper; Frequency of communion; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Multorum tam clericorum quam laicorum querela est non modica. Occupacio grauis et questio dubiosa. Quomodo quis se habere debeat in celbrando uel communicando ...; Tractatus racionis et consciencie de sumpc[i]one pabuli salutiferi corp[or]is d[omi]ni nostri Ih[es]u [Christi]; Tractatus racionis et consciencie de sumpcione pabuli salutiferi corporis domini nostri Ihesu Christi
Work titles: Dialogus rationis et conscientiae de frequenti usu Communionis
Notes: Title from incipit.

Imprint from Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.

Signatures: [a¹⁰, b¹²].

Colophon: Tractatus racionis et consciencie de sumpc[i]one pabuli salutiferi corp[or]is d[omi]ni nostri Ih[es]u [Christi], Finit.

"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"--Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry im00367000

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M21753

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 5803*

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 147

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry M-367

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, 40 (IA. 304)

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 29

De Ricci, S. Catalogue raisonné des premières impressions de Mayence (1455-67), entry 91

Bookplate of Davenport Brown.

According to De Ricci (entry 91, no. 12), this copy came from the "collection Kloss, puis Varrentrapp à Francfort; aujourd'hui [i.e. 1911] à Paris, chez le baron Hugo de Bethmann".

Printed on paper with oxhead watermarks.

Imperfect: leaves [b]10-12 wanting; photographic facsimiles of these 3 leaves laid in.

Capital space on [a]1r & a space left before each speech for the speaker's name; capital, paragraph marks, initial strokes, & speakers' names added in red.

Bound in full modern polished calf, by Gruel; in marbled board slip-case.