[Privilegia ordinis Cisterciensis]
Contributors: Leontorius, Conradus, 1460-1511; Metlinger, Peter, active 1487-1492, printer; Cistercians; Riviere & Son
Publisher: Petrus Metlinger
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Dijon
Language: lat
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Sources; Cistercians; History
Work titles: Privilegia ordinis Cisterciensis
Notes: Compiled and edited by Jean de Cirey.

Title and imprint from ISTC.

Woodcuts: ill., decorative initials.

Includes "Carmen rithmicu[m] in laudem Cistercij" on p. [394-395] and a verse (17 elegiac distichs) by Conradus Leontorius addressed to the reader (p. [395-396]).

A number of copies are authenticated by the signature of Conradus Leontorius, as indicated by Johannes de Cireyo in the preface: see BMC, CIBN and J. Vial in Gb Jb 1955, p.95.

Two full-page woodcuts on p. [3-4]: the Vierge de misericorde and the Members of the Cistercian Order. Cf. A.M. Hind, An introd. to a history of woodcut, 1935, v. 2, p. 620-621. BM 15th cent. describes as follows: "The woodcut on 2a represents the Virgin taking Cistercian monks and nuns under her mantle, that on 2b represents a pope delivering a document to kneeling Cistercians, among them four saints, with two scrolls containing type-set verses ..."

Colophon (B6r): Opera [et] i[m]p[r]esa Reuere[n]dissimi in Christo p[at]ris [et] d[omi]ni: d[omi]ni Ioha[n]nis abbatis Cistercij sacre theologie eximij p[ro]fessoris ad omnium sui sacratissimi ordinis filioru[m] consolationem [et] p[er]fectum hoc opus pluriu[m] summorn[m] [i.e. summoru[m]] pontificum priuilegioru[m] quib[us] dictus sacer ordo Cistercien[sis] amplissime co[n]tra omnes iniurias insultus priuilegiatus est [et] munitus eme[n]datissimi [et] integerrime impressum Diuione p[er] magistru[m] Petru[m] Metlinger Alema[n]nu[m]. Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc. nonagesimoprimo iiij Nonas Iulias. Finit filiciter.

Signatures: a-źı A-B́ı

Xylographic initials.

The first leaf and the last two leaves are blank.

Goff, P-976

BM 15th cent., VIII, p. 409

Rosenwald, 410

ISTC ip00976000

Hain-Copinger, 13367

Hain, 9391

BN cat. des incun., P-608

Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., P-463

Polain, 3256

IGI, 8060

BSB-Ink, P-775

IBP, 4581

Oates, 3286.5

Proctor, 8795

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Riviere & Son in red morocco panelled in blind and gilt. In this copy, leaves a1 and B8  (both blank) are wanting. Early marginalia is present throughout the text. The autograph of Conradus Leontorius is present on B6v, just after the conclusion of his verses. B7r, which is blank, contains ink transfer from his autograph and b6v, also blank, is entirely filled with early, Latin handwriting.