![JOHANNES FRIBURGENSIS (ca 1250-1314). Summa confessorum. [German:] Das buch genannt Summa. Translated and adapted by Berchtold (fl. 14th century). Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 25th September 1472.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09880_0068_000(040342).jpg?w=1)
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JOHANNES FRIBURGENSIS (ca 1250-1314). Summa confessorum. [German:] Das buch genannt Summa. Translated and adapted by Berchtold (fl. 14th century). Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 25th September 1472.
Chancery 2o (262 x 183 mm). Collation: [114 2-1510 168 1712 18-2610 278 286.] 277 leaves (of 278; lacks last blank, but including the first blank and blank 17/2). 29 lines. Gothic types 1:145 and 1:140. Capital spaces, a few with printed guide-letters. Opening initial in blue with white modeling and leafy border extension, rubricated in red with Lombard initials and paragraph marks. Early manuscript quiring with letters on rectos of first leaf of most gatherings. (A few mended tears, mostly marginal, some leaves with minor staining.) 19th-century brown levant morocco gilt, sides ruled with triple fillet and central coat-of-arms of Baron Achille Seillière, spine elaborately gilt, edges gilt by Belz Niedrée (minor rubbing to joints and corners). Provenance: Baron Achille Seillière (coat-of-arms on binding) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 30 August 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.
FIRST EDITION of this important contribution to medieval Catholic theology. Johannes of Friburg and his translator Brother Berchtold were both members of the Order of Preaching Friars (Franciscan). Addressing themselves to the poor and unknown, they seldom rose out of obscurity to leave a record of their personalities or work. Brother Berchtold may quite possibly have been the Berthold of Regensburg (ca 1220-1272) whose eloquence, filled with imagination and pathos, attracted vast audiences all over Germany. The Summa confessorum is a medieval guide to Church doctrine as it relates to Christian conduct, considering such matters as the duties of ecclesiastic and layman, the nature of the sacraments, absolution from sin, love of parents for their children, whether a wife should follow her husband under all conditions, suicide, of giving and taking advice, whether a judge my give and accept money, etc.
Collations in BMC, BSB-Ink and Harvard/Walsh differ slightly: BMC calls for 276 leaves (the first blank) but notes that "the quiring of leaves 145-174 is uncertain"; BSB-Ink. calls for 278 leaves (first and last leaves blank), which is in variant of the leaf count in their collation (*14+1 a-o10 p8 q12.1 r-B10 C-D6 = 277 leaves); Harvard/Walsh calls for 276 leaves (1 blank). BMC II,331 (IB. 5643); BSB-Ink I-566; CIBN J-213 (with woodcut); Harvard/Walsh 536; Pr 1599; Goff J-317.
Chancery 2o (262 x 183 mm). Collation: [114 2-1510 168 1712 18-2610 278 286.] 277 leaves (of 278; lacks last blank, but including the first blank and blank 17/2). 29 lines. Gothic types 1:145 and 1:140. Capital spaces, a few with printed guide-letters. Opening initial in blue with white modeling and leafy border extension, rubricated in red with Lombard initials and paragraph marks. Early manuscript quiring with letters on rectos of first leaf of most gatherings. (A few mended tears, mostly marginal, some leaves with minor staining.) 19th-century brown levant morocco gilt, sides ruled with triple fillet and central coat-of-arms of Baron Achille Seillière, spine elaborately gilt, edges gilt by Belz Niedrée (minor rubbing to joints and corners). Provenance: Baron Achille Seillière (coat-of-arms on binding) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 30 August 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943.
FIRST EDITION of this important contribution to medieval Catholic theology. Johannes of Friburg and his translator Brother Berchtold were both members of the Order of Preaching Friars (Franciscan). Addressing themselves to the poor and unknown, they seldom rose out of obscurity to leave a record of their personalities or work. Brother Berchtold may quite possibly have been the Berthold of Regensburg (ca 1220-1272) whose eloquence, filled with imagination and pathos, attracted vast audiences all over Germany. The Summa confessorum is a medieval guide to Church doctrine as it relates to Christian conduct, considering such matters as the duties of ecclesiastic and layman, the nature of the sacraments, absolution from sin, love of parents for their children, whether a wife should follow her husband under all conditions, suicide, of giving and taking advice, whether a judge my give and accept money, etc.
Collations in BMC, BSB-Ink and Harvard/Walsh differ slightly: BMC calls for 276 leaves (the first blank) but notes that "the quiring of leaves 145-174 is uncertain"; BSB-Ink. calls for 278 leaves (first and last leaves blank), which is in variant of the leaf count in their collation (*14+1 a-o10 p8 q12.1 r-B10 C-D6 = 277 leaves); Harvard/Walsh calls for 276 leaves (1 blank). BMC II,331 (IB. 5643); BSB-Ink I-566; CIBN J-213 (with woodcut); Harvard/Walsh 536; Pr 1599; Goff J-317.