Inuentorium eoru[m] que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

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Author / Creator:Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429, author.
Uniform title:Works. 1494
Imprint:[Strasbourg] : [Martin Flach], [1494]
Description:3 volumes : illustrations (woodcuts), music ; 32 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Format: Print Book
Local Note:Volume 1: University of Chicago Library's copy has index bound before part 1; colophon wormed with some loss of text.
Volume 2: University of Chicago Library's copy has binding error: volume 2, leaves D2.7 bound between leaf D1 and D3.
University of Chicago Library's copy from the library of Richard P. McKeon.
Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2795364
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Varying Form of Title:Inuentorium eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur
Prima pars operum Iohannis Gerson
Secunda pars operum Iohannis de Gerson
Tercia pars operum Iohannis de Gerson doctoris Christanissimi
Other authors / contributors:Flach, Martin, -1500, printer.
McKeon, Richard (Richard Peter), 1900-1985 former owner.
Franziskanerkloster Überlingen, former owner.
Provenance:Volume 1: Laid in: dealer's description of another incunable edition of Gerson's works for sale by Roy Vernon Sowers.
Former owner's inscriptions: F. Min. Contlim. Vberlingo; Ad Bibliothecam Frat[rum] Mino[rum] Conventuali[um] Überlinga; Minorum S . Franc. Conventualium Überlinga; Ad Bibliothecam FF. Mino[rum] S. Franc. Conventl. Überlinga.
Former owner's manuscript annotations in 2 hands, including manicules.
Binding: Blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; brass catches and clasps (volume 2 lacking 1 clasp; volume 3 lacking both clasps); manuscript waste strips to support binding; lacking final blank leaves in each volume.
Notes:Imprint from colophons.
Pars 1 has title: Prima pars operum Iohannis Gerson.
Pars 2 has title: Secunda pars operum Iohannis de Gerson.
Pars 3 has title: Tercia pars operum Iohannis de Gerson doctoris Christanissimi.
Colophon, pars 1: Prima pars operu[m] magistri Ioha[n]nis de Gerson sacraru[m] litteraru[m] doctoris resolutissimi Christianissimiq[ue] [com]plectens tractatus fidem ac p[er]ta[n]tem eccl[es]iastica[m] co[n]cerne[n]tes finit feliciter anno D[omi]nice natiuitatis Mccccxciiij idib[us] Dece[m]bris.
Colophon, pars 2: Secu[n]da pars ope[rum] d[omi]ni Iohannis Gerson cancellarij Parisien[sis] doctoris Christianissimi resolutissimiq[ue] [con]tinens opuscula ad mores acco[m]modata. Finit feliciter anno n[ost]re salutis Mccccxciiij idibus Decembris.
Colophon, pars 3: Finiu[n]t opera ca[n]cellarij Parisie[n]sis doctoris Christianissimi magistri Iohannis de Gerson que vt fru ge[n] lectori vberrima[m] fera[n]t, eme[n]datissima lima castigata fuere anno D[omi]ni Mcccclxxxxiiij iij idus mensis Augusti. [In verse] Noscere forte voles quis sculpserit hoc opus ere presserit has chartas quisue characteribus: ne mirere, licet tersum, mendis q[ue] solutum immune [et] vicijs hoc opus inuenias ille quidem Simus Martinus littore Rheni urbs dedit insignem cui Argentia domu[m]. Ille in quam impensis qui nunq[uam] (crede) pepercit, lector amice, dabat his liber iste fidem difficile est dictu quanta est adiecta labori cura, ingensq[ue] opera, [et] sollicitudo frequens usq[ue] adeo vt facile his, cedant sine murmure queuis pressa prius, morum sint monimenta licet comperiet prsens quicquid quesisse neccesse est peregrini q[uam]uis nomen vbiq[ue] gerat unde a resumpsit Gerson cognomen honestum quod si transfertur, aduena significat huius (teste deo) virtus superauerat omne hic calamus laudis, quod sibi ferre valet doctrina quantus fuerit, quantum arte profundus edita que fecit plurima scripta docent.
Signatures: index and pars 1: A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁸ E⁶ F-G⁸, a-b⁶ c-e⁸ f⁶ g-i⁸ k⁶ l⁸ m-t⁶·⁸ v-z⁸·⁶ 2a-2b⁸ 2c⁶ 2d-2g⁸ ; pars 2: A⁸ B-2F⁸·⁶ 2G-2H⁸ 2I⁶ 2K-2N⁸ ; pars 3: 2a-2h⁸·⁶ 2i-2k⁸ 2l⁶ 2m-2n⁸ 2o⁶ 2p-2q⁸ 2r-2v⁶·⁸ 2x⁸ 2y⁶ 2z⁸ 2A⁸ 2B⁶ 2C-2D⁸ 2E⁶ 2F⁸ 2G-2H⁶ 2I-2M⁸·⁶ 2N-2O⁸ 2P-2S⁶·⁸ 2T⁸ 2V⁶ 2X-2Z⁸ ²2A-2D⁶·⁸.
Printed in 2 columns; 53 lines; types, 175(160) (titles, head-lines, etc.), 80 (text), 71 leaded to 80 (glosses); spaces for capitals with guide letters; woodcut illustration of a pilgrim on verso of title to each part (including index).
Pars 1: [270] leaves; Pars 2: [258] leaves; Pars 3: [360] leaves.
Final leaf of each part, including index, blank.
Partly rubricated.
In four parts with separate signature sequences. First 3 parts dated 1494; final part dated 1502.
Includes index.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ig00189000
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 7625*
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 1, pages 152-153 (IB. 2178)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry G-89
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 698
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, entries 255, 256, 257
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 10717
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry G-186

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