Peniteas cito libellus iste nuncupatur
Subtitle: tractans compendiose de penitentia et eius circu[m]stantijs ac vitam peccatis deprauata[m] eme[n]dare cupientibus multum vtilis et necessarius
Contributors: Johannes, de Garlandia, active 13th century; Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212; Thomas, de Chobham, active 1200-1233; William, de Montibus, approximately 1140-1213; Hochfeder, Kaspar, active 1490-1517; Boethius, -524; Adam, Alderspacensis, active 13th century; Van Ess Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: [per] Henricu[m] Quentell
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Imp[re]ssuz Colonie
Language: lat
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Discipline; Penitentials; Early works to 1800; Confessors; Handbooks, manuals; Catholic Church
Other titles: Boetii viri celeberrimi de consolatione Philosophie liber
Work titles: Modus poenitendi
Notes: Imprint from colophon

Signatures: a-c⁶

Woodcut image on t.p.

Confessional guide in verse and with commentary; also issued under titles:  Summa poenitentiae; Modus poenitendi; and, Libellus de modo poenitendi et penitendi

Authorship variously attributed to Joannes de Garlandia, Pierre de Blois, and to Thomas de Chabham; commentary ascribed to Guillermus Zenders de Wert

Original wood boards with leather binding and remnants of brass clasps.

This is the first of three items bound together; second: [De consolatione philosophiae] Boetii viri celeberrimi de consolatione Philosophie liber : cum optimo co[m]mento beati Thome ; Colonia : Per Henricum Quentell, Anno gratie [1493], pridie kalendas nouembris [31 Oct.] ; [384] p.

Third: Su[m]mula clarissimi iurisco[n]sultissimiq[ue] viri Raymu[n]di : breuissimo [com]pendio sacrame[n]toru[m] alta co[m]plectens misteria de sortilegis, symonia, furto, rapina, vsura etq[ue] varijs casib[us] (q[uae] in plurimis iuris codicu[m] voluminibus co[n]fusa indistinctaq[ue] multiplicatione disp[er]gunt[ur]) resolutiones abu[n]de tradens, pastorib[us], sacerdotib[us] o[mn]ib[us]q[ue] p[er]sonis diuino caractere insignitis summe necessaria ; Colonie : [per] Henricu[m] Quentell, Anno M.cccc.xcv. die. xxv. Ianu. [25 January 1495]

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00845000

BM 15th cent., I: 283

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-845

Hain 13162

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 13800 (from http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/)

Panzer (Annales Typographici) I: 311. 255