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Confessionale sive Interrogatorium

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Confessionale sive Interrogatorium
Peter Schoeffer, 1478
BARTHOLOMAEUS DE CHAIMIS (d. c.1496). Confessionale sive Interrogatorium. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 25 May 1478.

Early edition of an influential and understudied text on sin printed by Peter Schoeffer. De Chaimis was a Franciscan monk and Papal legate under Sixtus IV. This, his only work, was hugely popular and reprinted eleven times in the incunable period—predominantly in Germany. It touches on many aspects of contemporary social life, discussing the potential abuses of professions such as medicine, shoe-making, law, and trade. It includes an early description of card and dice gambling games forbidden to priests (chess, however, was allowed). This is the variant with the colophon set in 118G. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in American institutions by ISTC. HC 2483*; GW 6544; BMC I 34; BSB-Ink C-247; Bod-inc B-078; Goff B-157; ISTC ib00157000.

Chancery half-sheet quarto (196 x 133mm). 150 leaves (of 152, without blanks). Incipit and colophon printed in red. Red initials, capital strokes, and underlining, woodcut printer’s device (final leaf laid down, repairing hole in blank area and tear at top margin just touching type, some leaves toned). Modern blindtooled calf to style by Van Rossum, edges blue (light wear to spine). Provenance: Jean-François Van de Velde (1743-1823, priest and librarian of the university of Louvain; his sale, Ghent, 1831, lot 4293) – François-Xavier Borluut de Noortdonck (1771-1857, Belgian collector; armorial bookplate; his sale, Ghent, 19 April 1838, lot 107).

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Confessionale sive Interrogatorium
Peter Schoeffer, 1478
BARTHOLOMAEUS DE CHAIMIS (d. c.1496). Confessionale sive Interrogatorium. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 25 May 1478.

Early edition of an influential and understudied text on sin printed by Peter Schoeffer. De Chaimis was a Franciscan monk and Papal legate under Sixtus IV. This, his only work, was hugely popular and reprinted eleven times in the incunable period—predominantly in Germany. It touches on many aspects of contemporary social life, discussing the potential abuses of professions such as medicine, shoe-making, law, and trade. It includes an early description of card and dice gambling games forbidden to priests (chess, however, was allowed). This is the variant with the colophon set in 118G. Only two copies of this edition are recorded in American institutions by ISTC. HC 2483*; GW 6544; BMC I 34; BSB-Ink C-247; Bod-inc B-078; Goff B-157; ISTC ib00157000.

Chancery half-sheet quarto (196 x 133mm). 150 leaves (of 152, without blanks). Incipit and colophon printed in red. Red initials, capital strokes, and underlining, woodcut printer’s device (final leaf laid down, repairing hole in blank area and tear at top margin just touching type, some leaves toned). Modern blindtooled calf to style by Van Rossum, edges blue (light wear to spine). Provenance: Jean-François Van de Velde (1743-1823, priest and librarian of the university of Louvain; his sale, Ghent, 1831, lot 4293) – François-Xavier Borluut de Noortdonck (1771-1857, Belgian collector; armorial bookplate; his sale, Ghent, 19 April 1838, lot 107).

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