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ANGELUS de Clavasio (1411-ca 1495). Summa Angelica de casibus conscientiae. Strassburg: Martin Flach, 26 March 1495.
Chancery 2o (286 x 197 mm). Collation: π8 χ8 a-f8.6 g6 h8 i-p6 q8 r-z6 A-Z6 AA-HH6 II8. 358 leaves. 54 lines and headline, double column. Gothic types 1:160 (title and headlines), 2:74 (text). 9-line rubricated initial on a1r, some 2- and 3-line initials supplied in red, chapter headings and chapter numbers underlined in red, capital spaces with printed guide-letters. (Some minor worming, heaviest at end and occasionally touching letters, tear crossing text on H3 and X5, marginal wormtrack on quires R-S, just touching a few letters, some pale marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasp (lacking one clasp). Provenance: Berlin, Royal Library (ex-library stamp on title verso) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943.
Flach's third edition of Clavasio's text; the first edition was published in Chivasso in 1486. BMC I, 153 (IB.2187); BSB-Ink. A-533; GW 1938; H *5397; Pr 701; Goff A-725.
Chancery 2o (286 x 197 mm). Collation: π8 χ8 a-f8.6 g6 h8 i-p6 q8 r-z6 A-Z6 AA-HH6 II8. 358 leaves. 54 lines and headline, double column. Gothic types 1:160 (title and headlines), 2:74 (text). 9-line rubricated initial on a1r, some 2- and 3-line initials supplied in red, chapter headings and chapter numbers underlined in red, capital spaces with printed guide-letters. (Some minor worming, heaviest at end and occasionally touching letters, tear crossing text on H3 and X5, marginal wormtrack on quires R-S, just touching a few letters, some pale marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasp (lacking one clasp). Provenance: Berlin, Royal Library (ex-library stamp on title verso) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943.
Flach's third edition of Clavasio's text; the first edition was published in Chivasso in 1486. BMC I, 153 (IB.2187); BSB-Ink. A-533; GW 1938; H *5397; Pr 701; Goff A-725.