Libellus de modo co[n]fitendi et penitendi
Publisher: Jacobus de Breda
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Deventer
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Penitentials; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Libellus de modo confitendi et poenitendi
Notes: In verse, with interlinear prose commentary.

By William de Montibus. Variously, but wrongly, ascribed to Joannes de Garlandia, Petrus Blesensis, and others. Cf. J. Goering, William de Montibus.

The Houghton Library copy wants the title-page, which is preserved in the Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem. Title transcribed from facsim. reproduction of t.p. in Jaspers.

Text begins (A2r): Quida[m] fructuosus libell[us] de modo co[n]fitendi et penitendi Feliciter incipit. [P]eniteas cito ...

Imprint from ISTC.

Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ (C8 blank); A2 signed 'Ai'.

Title-page woodcut incorporating symbols of the Four Evangelists and the letters IHS.

Initial spaces.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Goff, M-775.

Campbell (1st Suppl.), 1143a.

Jaspers, G.J. Vijf merkwaardige (post)incunabelbladen in de Haarlemse Stadsbibliotheek en de ontwarring van een 'Campbell-knoop'. (De Boeken Wereld, 6 (1989): 6-11), p. 9-11.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), im00771500.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3900.