De modo confitendi et puritate conscientiae.

Sm. 8vo: [27-1 bl.] ff., 30 ll.

18th-c. half mottled sheep, marbled paper covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, blue spr. edges (covers very rubbed, with 25 blank ff. at end added at the time of the binding: sl. damp stains to some lower corners, occ. foxed ff.).

Theological work (1st c. 1492) wrongly attributed to Thomas Aquinas or Bonaventura, written in reality by the German-Polish Matthaeus de Cracovia (1345?-1410), rector of the University of Heidelberg, bishop of Worms and cardinal. Gothic types. Occ. ms. marginalia.
Ref. ISTC im00372500. - GW M21728. - Goff T303 (c. 1490). - Polain 3698. - BMC VIII:40. - CIBN M-233. - BSB-Ink M-265. - Cp. BMC VIII:40 (ed. in 22 ff.).
Prov. 18th-c. ms. notes: one on front flyleaf dating the work c. 1489 or c. 1486 and numb. "93" with date Oct. 1782 on lower pastedown. - N. 387 of the book sale catalogue of Henri Pierre Verdussen in Antwerp, 1858 (cfr. numb. label pasted on spine). - Le Candele, i.e. Charles-Pierre-Joseph Le Candele de Ghyseghem (1761-1830), Antwerp collector of manuscripts and early printed books (i.a. over 200 incunables) (armorial bookpl. with arms of alliance of Le Candele and de Robiano).