Incipit su[m]ma de casib[us]
By: per fratre[m] Astesanu[m] de ordine fratru[m] minoru[m] co[m]pilata ad honore[m] dei immortalis: [et] dilige[n]tem exhortatione[m] d[omi]ni Joa[n]nis gaietani
Contributors: Lisboa, Gomes de, -1513, editor; Bellati, Bartolomeo, -1479, editor; Wild, Leonhard, printer; Nicolaus, von Frankfurt, active 1473-1516, bookseller; Sullivan, Edward, Sir, 1852-1928, former owner
Publisher: Leonardus Wild, for Nicolaus de Frankfordia
Published: 1480
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 554
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Penance; Casuistry
Other titles: Incipit summa de casibus; Summe confessionis; Summe confessionis; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Summa de casibus conscientiae
Notes: Title from caption (a3 recto) which begins: In nomine d[omi]ni amen.

Prefatory letter to Cardinal Barbo by Bartholomaeus Bellatus on leaf a2.

Imprint, date, and editors' names from colophon (10́ verso): Su[m]me [con]fessionis operi nobilissimo [et] huic facultati operam da[n]tibus pernecessario: qua[m] frater Astesanus de Ast ... edidit: maxima cura [et] sollicitudine famosissimi sacre theologie magistri fratr[is] Bartholomei de Bellat[is] de feltro circa iuris cotationes: necnon fratr[is] Gometij hispani de vlyxbona p[ro]uintie portugalie sacre theologie bacchalarij clarissimi in [con]uentu Uenetiarum circa residuum totius voluminis ambo eiusdem religionis minorum emendate. Rursusq[ue] per viros alios solennissimos: ac in facultate ista approbatissimos q[uam] diligentissime examinate: sumptibus [et] iussu Nicolai de francfordia Uenetijs finis imprimendo impositus est per Leonardu[m] wild de Ratisbona. 1480. die 28. Aprilis.

Signatures: a-g℗£́ʻ G℗£℗ø h-x℗£́ʻ y℗£℗ø 2a-2x℗£́ʻ 2y℗£℗ø 1-9℗£́ʻ 10́ı (a1 and y12=blank).

Super-chancery folio; printed in double columns, 56 lines per page; initial spaces without guide letters.

Includes index.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1169

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, p. 265 (IB. 20752)

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia01169000

Cataloged 20170920 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy imperfect: a℗£́ʻ, aa1, and 10́ wanting.  Leaf m1 bound-in before b1. Bound in 19th-century red goatskin paneled and tooled in gilt. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt. All text block edges gilt. Bookplates: armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Sullivan, unidentified armorial bookplate, BPL bookplate, and  unidentified bookplate with monogram (J.I.C.[?]). Early marginalia. Leaf dimensions: 256 x 176 mm. Acquired July, 1892.