[Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive, Expositio Decalogi]
Contributors: Ruppel, Berthold, -1494 or 1495, printer; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Berthold Ruppel
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Basel
Language: lat
Number of pages: 660
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Ten commandments
Other titles: Expositio Decalogi; Preceptorium diuine legis
Work titles: Praeceptorium divinae legis
Notes: Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC. "F. Finkenstaedt, in Beiträge zu Forschung, neue Folge 4 (München, 1932) pp.7-33, although wrongly accepting a rubricator's date of 1464 as genuine, showed that this edition served as exemplar for Zel's first edition (Goff N-207), of which a copy is known with an acquisition note of 1472 (cf. also V. Scholderer, in The Library V, 3 (1948/49) p.50 and K. Ohly in ZfB 57 (1940) pp.247-60). BMC dated not after 1474, and Goff about 1470"--ISTC UKBYIN00196000-E.

Leaf [4]1 recto (p. [57]): Incipit prologus i[n] exposic[i]one[m] decalogi s[e]c[undu]m fr[atr]em Ioha[n]ne[m] Nider, sacre theologie p[ro]fessorem o[r]dinis p[re]dicatoru[m].

Colophon (leaf [33]9 recto, p. [657]): Explicit preceptorium diuine legis, Fratris Iohannis Nyder sacre theologie professoris eximij ordinis predicatorum, Conue[n]tualis Nure[n]bergensis.

Gatherings: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-16¹⁰ 17¹² 18-33¹⁰] (last leaf blank).

Printed in double columns, 37 lines to a full column.

Without title page, pagination, signatures, or catchwords.

Capital spaces, without guide letters.

Leaves [1]1-[3]8 (p. [1]-[56]) contain table.

Burke Library copy: Inscription on leaf [1]: Ex Libris S. Mariae in Langnow.

Burke Library copy: Leaf [1] slightly mutilated, affecting text.

Burke Library copy: Rubricated throughout, with large initials in red.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Metal clasps, broken; two of five metal bosses intact on each board.

Goff N-196

BM 15th cent., III, p. 715 (IB. 37012)

ISTC in00196000

GW M26903

Gatch. Van Ess catalog, B-182