TURRECREMATA, Johannes de (1388-1468). Expositio regulae S. Benedicti . Paris: Pierre Levet, for Nicolaus Militis, 4 May 1491. Chancery 2° (287 x 205mm). Collation: π 2 a-u 8 (π1r tabula, a1r title and woodcut device, a1v blank, a2r letters between the author and abbot Arsenius, a2v commendations of the Rule, a3r text and commentary, v8r colophon, v8v blank). 162 leaves. 53 lines of commentary and foliation double column. Type: 2:113G, 1:81G, printed guide-letters. 2-3-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (A few small, light stains, occasional light spotting, small marginal tear in first quire touching a few letters but without loss.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (expertly rebacked, without centre- and cornerpieces and 2 fore-edge clasps). Provenance : unlocated monastery of St. Peter (17th-century inscription on first page). Only 15th-century edition of this commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, written by the great Spanish theologian. Turrecremata wrote this commentary at the behest of abbot Arsenius, who requested it as an aid in the reform of the Benedictine order. The letter from Arsenius to Turrecremata and Turrecremata's reply preface the text. Although BMC calls for 164 leaves, with fos. 4 and 5 blank, the correct collation seems to be the one given above. Polain describes the same collation, although the preliminary quire of 2 leaves containing the tabula has been inserted after the title on a1. BMC acknowledges that, according to the watermarks, Polain could be correct, but the binding does not allow closer inspection. HC *15734; BMC VIII, 100 (IB. 39913); Goff T-516; Polain(B) 3863; IDL 4516; IGI 9877.
TURRECREMATA, Johannes de (1388-1468). Expositio regulae S. Benedicti . Paris: Pierre Levet, for Nicolaus Militis, 4 May 1491. Chancery 2° (287 x 205mm). Collation: π 2 a-u 8 (π1r tabula, a1r title and woodcut device, a1v blank, a2r letters between the author and abbot Arsenius, a2v commendations of the Rule, a3r text and commentary, v8r colophon, v8v blank). 162 leaves. 53 lines of commentary and foliation double column. Type: 2:113G, 1:81G, printed guide-letters. 2-3-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (A few small, light stains, occasional light spotting, small marginal tear in first quire touching a few letters but without loss.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (expertly rebacked, without centre- and cornerpieces and 2 fore-edge clasps). Provenance : unlocated monastery of St. Peter (17th-century inscription on first page). Only 15th-century edition of this commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, written by the great Spanish theologian. Turrecremata wrote this commentary at the behest of abbot Arsenius, who requested it as an aid in the reform of the Benedictine order. The letter from Arsenius to Turrecremata and Turrecremata's reply preface the text. Although BMC calls for 164 leaves, with fos. 4 and 5 blank, the correct collation seems to be the one given above. Polain describes the same collation, although the preliminary quire of 2 leaves containing the tabula has been inserted after the title on a1. BMC acknowledges that, according to the watermarks, Polain could be correct, but the binding does not allow closer inspection. HC *15734; BMC VIII, 100 (IB. 39913); Goff T-516; Polain(B) 3863; IDL 4516; IGI 9877.
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