[Rarebooks] FS: Incunabula - Ecclesiastical rules for penances

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(INCUNABULA) LIBELLUS DE MODO CONFITENDI ET PENITENDI. (Antwerp: Gerardum 
Leeu. 1488). Sm. 4to. ff.(25) of 26 leaves, lacking the final leaf, blank except 
for a printer’s device. A facsimile of this leaf has been supplied. A1 recto 
with a large woodcut of a penitent and priest. Large woodcut initial on A2 
recto. Bound in 19th century red morocco, ornately gilt tooled. Title leaf neatly 
remargined (inner & lower margins). Old repairs to lower blank outer corners 
and bottom margins of a number of leaves. Bookplates of Nathan Comfort Starr 
and Frederick Spiegelberg.     $4.500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very scarce book, first printed in 1480 and followed by about 15 editions, 
mostly printed in Antwerp or Deventer, by the end of the century. The text is 
a manual of Ecclesiastical rules for the imposition of penances suitable to 
different sins. Medievalists have attributed this work to either John of 
Garland, Peter of Blois or William de Montibus. Our edition is Goff M767 (under “
Modus Poenitendi”) recording only 1 copy. BMC IX, 190 (lacking the title leaf with 
woodcut); HCR 11498. Incunabula in the Dutch Libraries, #3276.

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