Guido de monte rochen (2 risultati)
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: per Wynandum de Worde, 13 February, London, 1509
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Da: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Regno UnitoSokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB
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EUR 30.398,25
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. ll. 133 (iii). Blackletter. T-p with woodcut depicting two tonsured priests with a monstrance, within woodcut border, woodcut printer's device to last verso. T-p with repair to upper margin, restored to outer margin with small portion supplied in ink, 18 further ll. expertly restored to mar…gins, one or two letters occasionally supplied in ink, K8 and L1-2 with portions of a few lines supplied in ink. Last quire browned, washed and pressed, possibly from another copy, last few ll. restored at gutter and outer margin. Occasional dustiness, the odd small spot, else a very good, clean copy in C20 antique brown crushed morocco by Riviere, joints lightly rubbed, spine gilt, all edges gilt, leather booklabel of Estelle Doheny to front pastedown. Contemp. ownership inscription to colophon, 'John Foster,' contemp. 6-line inscription to verso of t-p on baptism, 'Caveat sacerdos' etc., a few letters obscured at gutter, price note to next, 'iiijd' (i.e. 4 pence). C18 or C19 shelfmark of York Cathedral Library to t-p and next, 'XV.O.39,' purchased 1930 by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Very rare second Wynkyn de Worde edition of this popular manual for priests by the fourteenth-century Spanish cleric and canonist Guido de Mont Rochen, first printed in England by Pynson around 1500, and by de Worde in an earlier edition of 1502. This copy has excellent provenance, being from the library of Estelle Doheny, originally purchased from the York Minster Library by private treaty in 1930 by A.S.W. Rosenbach, with evidence of early English ownership (see Leslie A. Morris, Rosenbach Abroad (Philadelphia: 1988), p. 59, no. 55). Monte Rochen's book went through hundreds of editions in the late medieval period and circulated widely in manuscript: 'It sold twice as many copies as Gratian's Decretum, three times more than Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae, and six times more than Boccaccio's Decameron or Augustine's City of God. Yet Guido de Monte Rochen and his manual for priests have long been overlooked by historians of the period' (Michael Milway, 'Forgotten Best-Sellers from the Dawn of the Reformation' in eds Bast, Gow and Oberman, Continuity and Change (Leiden: 2000), p. 117). It was finally superseded by the establishment of the Roman Catholic catechism in the Council of Trent in 1566. The manual is divided into three parts: the first covers the chief sacraments of baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, marriage, extreme unction, and the ordination of holy orders; the second covers penance and confession; the third contains crucial doctrines to be conveyed to the people: the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, etc. Monte Rochen is particularly concerned with when things go wrong, for example noting the penances associated with mistreatment of the Eucharist, such as spilling the chalice, or when someone vomits up the Host because they are ill or, worse, drunk. Another major concern is the baptism of a child who is in danger of immediate death, a crisis regularly encountered by midwives as well as priests. Monte Rochen notes that in such cases, not only women but also atheists, Jews, pagans and heretics can baptise a child. However, only pure water should be used: children should never be baptised in meat broth, he says, but baptism in a well is allowed in extreme circumstances. The early owner of this copy merely noted that children should not be baptized a second time, and that prayers should be said over them in church. Pre-Elizabethan English imprints, of all sorts, are now commercially rare. This ed. is very scarce: OCLC notes Princeton and Simon Fraser only in North America; of the 1502 de Worde edition, OCLC notes three copies in North America, at Simon Fraser, Illinois and the New York Society Library. Lowndes IV, 1590. Ames II, 149. ESTC S111296.
Altre immaginiEditore: [(Colophon:) London, Wynkyn de Worde, 22 April 1502.], 1502
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- Prima edizione
Da: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Regno UnitoBernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB
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First Edition. 8vo, ff.cxxxiv, [4]; AQ8 R18, quire E missigned 'G' as in BL copy but foliation continuous; gothic letter, Wynkyn's Caxton device (McKerrow 10b) to title; title dusty and laid down with some loss to edges, repairs to head and tail of A27 with loss to headlines of A2 and a few others shaved, closed tear to A2 affec…ting a dozen words, tear to inner margin of A3 with a handful of words lost, minor losses to head of C1D2 not affecting text, small wormtrack to quire A affecting a few letters on 2 ff., small wormtrack to last 3 quires affecting a couple of words per page, light damp-stains to head throughout and a few other minor blemishes; else a very good, crisp copy in nineteenth-century sheep over wooden boards; neatly rejointed, endcaps and -bands lost; contemporary ownership inscription to f.cxxviiiv ('of this bo[ke] Raulffe Wyller ys the ower'), offsetting from an early inscription to f.lviv, 'Pope' struck out in red on ff.xxxiiv and xxxixr, pencil manicule to f.xcviiiv, marks in red crayon to a couple of leaves, ink stamp of Stonyhurst College to title and rear flyleaf.First Wynkyn de Worde edition of this immensely popular medieval handbook for priests, one of only four complete copies known. Composed in the 1330s by Guido de Monte Rochen (also Monte Rocherii or Roterio), the Manipulus curatorum met the growing need for pastoral guidance and the training of priests in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). Aimed at simple curates and written in a suitably unadorned style, the work is in three parts: the first on six of the seven sacraments; the second on penance (the remaining sacrament and a matter of particular complexity for parish priests); and the third on catechesis. 'Although Guido's manual had much in common with contemporary pastoralia, it stood out from the pack by adapting and simplifying the genre's basic features to serve its audience more effectively. The Handbook is long enough to be comprehensive, but short enough to be truly useful' (Thayer and Lualdi, p.xxiv). 'More than 250 manuscript copies of the Handbook for Curates are still extant, but it truly came into its own with the advent of printing. Between circa 1468 and 1501, some 122 editions of the Handbook rolled off European presses both big and small, making it the eleventh most printed title in the period' (ibid., pp.xiiiiv). Only the Inquisition in the Catholic world and the Reformation in the Protestant put an end to its widespread use, as witnessed by the anti-papal deletions in our copy. The present edition was the third to be printed in England, preceded by two from the press of Richard Pynson (1498 and 1500). All English editions (of which there are seven, the last printed in 1517) are very rare, with copies often found imperfect. Of the present edition, only three other complete copies are recorded by ESTC (BL, Glasgow, Rylands). Two imperfect copies are at Stonyhurst and Illinois, and Bodley holds a made-up copy of the 1517 edition with two quires supplied from the 1502. They are also very scarce in commerce no complete copies of the present edition appear in auction records, and of the others we can trace only the York MinsterDoheny copy of the 1509 edition (last sold in 2024, $9500), the Stonyhurst copy of the 1500 edition (sold Sotheby's 2003, £6600), and another copy of the same (sold Sotheby's 1983, £1078) in the last century. ESTC S111275; STC 12472. See Anne T.Thayer and Katherine J.Lualdi, introduction to Guido of Monte Rochen, Handbook for Curates (2011). Language: Latin.
