Regimen moralitatis

Item Information

Title:
Regimen moralitatis
Contributor:
Pseudo-Lentulus
Printer:
Kachelofen, Konrad, -1528 or 1529
Auctioneer:
Christie's Amsterdam B.V.
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus Zisska, Schauer & Co.
Former owner:
Moirandat Company
Auctioneer:
Reiss & Sohn
Former owner:
Bruce McKittrick Rare Books (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1487–1495]
Format:
Books
Genre:
Bearer impressions
Incunabula
Incunabula--Germany
Chancery quartos
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
Virtues--Early works to 1800
Epistola de statura Christi ad Senatum Romanum
Places:
Germany > Saxony > Leipzig
Extent:
[6] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/1544fk05g
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Leipzig] : [Conrad Kachelofen]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
46 Latin distichs with German verse paraphrases.
Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.
Notes (ownership):
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.49 sold at Christie's, Amsterdam (June 18, lot 513); at Sotheby's in 1985 (June 27-28, lot 33, buyer: "Percival"). Offered at auction in 2008 by Zisska and Schauer (auction 52, lot 244). Thereafter this copy apparently offered by Moirandat, Basel, in 2010 (Katalog 25, no. 2). Sold at auction in Germany in 2021 (Reiss & Sohn, April 21, lot 219). Purchased from McKittrick Rare Books in November, 2022.
Notes (acquisition):
Purchase; McKittrick Rare Books; 20221116; 2022.82.1.
Notes (citation):
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 5040
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M37263
Incunabula short title catalogue, ir00043900
Notes (object):
Signatures a⁶.
Chancery quarto; a2 recto, 32 lines: 141 mm; types: 160G (titles), 89G (text)
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.49 unrubricated. Blind impressions from bearer types in the lower margin of the title leaf. With leaf dimensions: 183 x 133 mm.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.406.49 bound in modern boards covered in a leaf from a 16th-century edition of Ulrich Tengler's Leyenspiegel. All text block edges stained red.
Identifier:
06_01_018624
Call #:
RARE BKS Q.406.49
Barcode:
39999092874500