Summula pauperum.

Su[m]mula clarissimi iurisco[n]sultissimi[que] viri Raymu[n]di : breuissimo [com]pendio sacrame[n]toru[m] alta co[m]plectens misteria, de sortilegis, symonia, furto, rapina, vsura et[que] varijs casib[us] (q[uae] in plurimis iuris codicu[m] voluminibus co[n]fusa indistincta[que] multiplicatione dis[per]gunt[ur]) resolutiones abu[n]de tradens, pastorib[us], sacerdotib[us] o[mn]ib[us]q[ue] [per]sonis diuino caractere insignitis summe necessaria.

Title in ISTC: Summula sacramentorum Raymundi de Pennaforte metrificata

Impressa Colonie : [Per] Henricu[m] Quentell, anno Mccccxcv die. xxv. Ianu [25 Jan. 1495]

cxlix, [7] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

An epitome in verse of St. Raymund of Peñafort's Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio. The work, sometimes attributed to Adam Coloniensis, is now commonly assigned to Adamus, a 13th-century Cistercian monk of Aldersbach in Lower Bavaria.

Imprint from colophon.
Woodcut illustration of teacher and two students on title page with scroll reading, "Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancti," According to Scrheiber, this is St. Thomas Aquinas; according to the Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, it is Quentell's woodcut A depicting a teacher and four students.
Signatures: a-s⁶ t-v⁴ x-2c⁶ 2d⁴ (last leaf blank).
Colophon (2c3v): Explicit summula Raymu[n]di diligenter correcta & emendata. Impressa Colonie [per] Henricu[m] Quentell. Anno. M.cccc.xcv. die. xxv. Ianu.
Spaces for initial letters left blank.
Text with interlinear gloss alternating with commentary, the gloss and commentary in smaller type.
Heading title: Summula Raymundi.

Library's copy has: first initial supplied in red ink; contemporary manuscript notes on leaf a1v; annotations and marginalia; and a few worm holes.
Originally classed as: BX1757 .A3 1495 Incun.

In Latin; printed in black letter type.

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00046000 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia00046000)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-46
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 213 (https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/GW00213.htm)
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 283 (IA 4629)
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 270
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13707*
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 1326
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 8
Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge, 759
Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d'Italia, 47
Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts (3. Aufl.), 5048
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, A-21 (https://inkunabeln.digitale-sammlungen.de/Ausgabe_A-21.html)
Valls Taberner, F. 'Summula pauperum' de Adam de Aldersbach. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens 7 (1938), page 79
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-018 (http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/A-018)

Jerome, bishop of [Hallis?] (inscription on leaves a6v-b1r).

Contemporary binding: blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with beveled edges; sewn on three double tawed-leather (?) bands; brass bosses on both covers; brass and leather clasps. Bound with scraps from a 14th-century manuscript.

Restrictions: Inquiries concerning this item should be directed to the reference librarian for the Robbins Collection.

Germany -- Cologne.

KBR1786.3 .A3 S8 1495 Incun.

Latin

Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275. Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio.