Summa angelica
Publisher: Jean Le Bourgeois
Published: 1495
Place of publication: Rouen
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Canon law; Early works to 1800; Casuistry
Other titles: Summa de casibus conscientiae; Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae
Notes: "Probably reprinted from the Lyons edition of 1494 (Gesamtkatalog 1936). The wording of the colophon derives from Arrivabene's Venice edition, 1492 ..."--BM 15th cent.

Imprint from ISTC.

Colophon: Explicit su[m]ma angelica de casib[us] co[n]scientie per fratre[m] Angelu[m] de Clauasio co[m]pilata maxima cu[m] dilige[n]tia reuisa [et] fideli studio emendata sicut ip[su]m opus per se satis attestabitur. Rothomagi impressa per Iohannem Le Bourgoys eadem in vrbe [com]morantem. Anno D[omi]ni M. CCCC. nonagesimoqui[n]to die v[er]o penultima Ianuarij.

Signatures: pi⁸ [Maltese cross]¹² a-r⁸ [r rotunda]⁸ [long s]⁸ s-t⁸ v⁸ u⁸ x-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-X⁸ ²A-M⁸.

Lower case signing series includes both forms of "r" and "s" and both "v" and "u"; first upper case series in same Gothic face as text; second upper case series signed in closed Gothic type. Leaf d4 is signed c4, k2 signed k4, and n2 signed n4.

Leaf CCCLXX is numbered CCCLXXIIII, CCCCLXIII numbered CCCCLXVIII.

Leaves printed on rectos and versos.

Text printed in two columns, except for Tornielli's letter, printed in one column ([1v-3r]), and the first table, in three columns ([3v-6r]). 46 lines and foliation. Marginal paragraph numbers. Types: 120 G., title and headings; 63 G.A few capital spaces. Lombards.

Woodcut printer's device on last leaf.

Includes prefatory letter of Hieronymus Tornielus.

Incunabula short title catalogue ia00724500

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries (supplement), A-724a

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 8, page 394 (IA. 43940)

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-291

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 1937

Contemporary owner's inscription: Oratu [pro] bono statu Thome Petewyne. It[e]m [pro] animabus domini Johannis Grainesby, Thome Wade, Roberti Wade, Johannis et Alicie uxore; contemporary signature on verso of last leaf: G[?][z?]y [Fust?] 1494; armorial bookplate of William Charles De Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam; armorial bookplate of Albert Ehrman (Broxbourne Library); inscription on back pastedown: AE R.589; embossed stamp: Ex Bibliotheca Dr. Detlef Mauss; Signature: Dr. Detlef Mauss Rechtsanwalt in Weisbaden ....; bookdealer's description pasted to front free endpaper

Bound in 20th-cent. reddish-brown morocco.