FRANCISCI DE INSULIS, Michael. Quodlibet de veritate fraternitatis rosarii, [Basel: Bernhard Richel, after 10 March 1476]. 2° (280 x 202mm). 10 leaves, 46 lines, gothic letter, rubricated. (Fore-margin of first leaf very slightly defective, minor worming in the margins). 19th-century white glazed boards, printed label on spine. Provenance : Furstenbergische Hofbibliothek, Donaueschingen, Inc. 210 (manuscript label on spine). A pirated edition of this scholastic debate on the Confraternity of the Rosary which had been founded in Cologne in 1475 by the Dominican Grand Inquisitor Jakob Sprenger and which the Dominicans at Basel were also keen to promote. The first authorised edition appeared at Cologne printed by Hoernen in 1480. The author complains about this edition in his introduction. 'Other tracts concerning the Fraternitas rosaceae coronae were printed about this time at Basel, where the Brotherhood appears to have been attracting attention', BMC, loc.cit. At the foot of the last page is a contemporary manuscript copy of a pastoral letter of Sixtus IV dated 30 May 1478. HC 7341*; GW 10259 (dating the work c.1479-80); BMC III, 798; Goff F-296.
FRANCISCI DE INSULIS, Michael. Quodlibet de veritate fraternitatis rosarii, [Basel: Bernhard Richel, after 10 March 1476]. 2° (280 x 202mm). 10 leaves, 46 lines, gothic letter, rubricated. (Fore-margin of first leaf very slightly defective, minor worming in the margins). 19th-century white glazed boards, printed label on spine. Provenance : Furstenbergische Hofbibliothek, Donaueschingen, Inc. 210 (manuscript label on spine). A pirated edition of this scholastic debate on the Confraternity of the Rosary which had been founded in Cologne in 1475 by the Dominican Grand Inquisitor Jakob Sprenger and which the Dominicans at Basel were also keen to promote. The first authorised edition appeared at Cologne printed by Hoernen in 1480. The author complains about this edition in his introduction. 'Other tracts concerning the Fraternitas rosaceae coronae were printed about this time at Basel, where the Brotherhood appears to have been attracting attention', BMC, loc.cit. At the foot of the last page is a contemporary manuscript copy of a pastoral letter of Sixtus IV dated 30 May 1478. HC 7341*; GW 10259 (dating the work c.1479-80); BMC III, 798; Goff F-296.
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