Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae.

4to: [16]-CCCXL [= 340] ff. (minor soiling).

Contemp. blind-stamped calf over wood, covers with circular and lozenge-shaped stamps within blind-ruled frame, spine with 5 raised bands (rubbed, head def., clasps and catches gone, front flyleaf gone). Very good, well-preserved copy.

Very rare later ed. of the Summa Angelica of the Franciscan canon lawyer Angelo Carleti di Chivasso (1411-1495), 1st printed 1486. His alphabetically arranged encyclopaedia of cases of conscience was very popular, although Luther detested it and had it publicly burned in 1520. Large woodcut mark of Huguetan on title. Nice woodcut headpiece (presentation scene) on a1r. Title and a1r printed in red and black. Printed in Gothic type, in 2 col.
Ref. Baudrier XI:292. - Not in Adams.
Prov. "Mon[aste]rij Sancti Huberti" (ms. entry at top of title), i.e. Abbey of St. Hubert (Ardennes). - 16th-c. inscriptions on endpapers (partly deleted). - Old libr. ticket on spine.
Joined, two incomplete Parisian postincunables in one vol., 8vo (marginal dampstaining, blank parts of title covered with later paper). Contemp. blind-decorated calf, spine with 4 raised bands, red sp. edges (rubbed, boards wormed, def. at head, tail and corners). Old ownership entries on title (partly covered): 1. Burlaeus, Gualterus - Vita omnium philosophorum et poetarum cum annotationibus et sententiis aureis eorundem annexis. Paris, [J. Pouchin for] B. Aubry, [ca. 1518]. [88 (of 96)] ff. (quire f missing). Biographies of classical philosophers and poets by the English scholastic philosopher Walter Burley (1275-1344). Woodcut mark of Aubry on title. Gothic type. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. BP16 103439 = Moreau II:1776 (3 copies only). - 2. Scotus Michael - Mensa philosophica. Paris, J. Petit, [1517]. [48 (of 72?)] ff. (all after f8 missing). Mensa philosophica is a treatise on the art of dining conversation, including information on dietetic and medical benefits. It is usually attributed to the Irish physician Theobaldus Anguilbertus (ca. 1175-1235), but some editions attribute it to Michael Scotus (1175-1232), a mathematician and scholar in the Middle Ages, who notably served as science adviser and court astrologer to Frederick II. Ref. BP16 103179 = Moreau II:1517 (4 copies). (2 vol.)