Expositio regulae S. Benedicti

Expositio super regulam beatissimi patris Benedicti.

Parisii : Laboriose exaratu[m] per Petrum Leuet : Impe[n]sa vero Nicolai Militis librarii mora[m] duce[n]tis ante palaciu[m] Regium ad intersigniu[m] Pillei rubei finit feliciter, anno a natiuitate Christi millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo pri[m]o quarta Maii [4 May 1491].

[164] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Imprint from colophon.
Device on title page.
Signatures: pi⁴ a-v⁸ (leaves pi4 and a1 blank).
Leaves 6-164 foliated ii.-Clx.
Colophon (v8r): Opus p[raese]ns continens expositione[m] regule beatissimi patris B[e]n[e]dicti collecta[m] per d[omi]n[u]m Cardinalem sancti Sixti Iohannem de Turrecremata vulgariter nuncupatu[m] Parisii laboriose exarat[u]m per Petrum Leuet: impe[n]sa vero Nicolai Militis librarii mora[m] duce[n]tis ante palaciu[m] Regium ad intersigniu[m] Pillei rubei: finit feliciter. Anno a natiuitate Christi Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo pri[m]o: quarta Maii.
Spaces for initial letters left blank; guide letters supplied.
Includes the text of the rule of Saint Benedict and a letter from the monk Arsenius to Torquemada with the latter's response.

Library's copy imperfect or a variant state: leaves pi2-a1 missing.
Library's copy has: initials supplied in red and blue ink, with especially elaborate initial on a2r; marginalia in red ink.
Originally classed as: BQV100.B46 T67 1491 Incun.

In Latin.

Incunabula short title catalogue, it00516000 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00516000)
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T-516
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, page 100 (IB. 39913)
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, *15734
Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables, T-372
Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France, XVII, 589
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique, 3863
Incunabula in Dutch librarie, 4516
Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche dItalia, 9877
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 8063
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, T-544 (https://inkunabeln.digitale-sammlungen.de/Ausgabe_T-544.html)
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, T-269 (http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/T-269)
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M48229 (https://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M48229.htm)

Provenance: N.M. Hodgson (pencil inscription on title page) Gilbert Bylby (15th centure note on last page); Bibliotheca Monasterii St. Michaelis Arch. et Omn. S.S. Angelorum apud Belmont prope Herefordiam (bookplate on upper pastedown): Ralph Sheldon (coat of arms on upper pastedown and covers), and Robert Biddulph Phillipps of Longworth (note on fly-leaf regarding provenance).

Bound in brown calf-skin; gilt-tooled coat of arms on covers; red morocco label on spine, "Regula St. Benti."

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

France -- Paris.

BX3004.Z5 T67 1491 Incun.

Latin

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.