INCUNABULA Pseudo Albertus Magnus COMPENDIUM THEOLOGICÆ ORIGINAL KNOWN MONASTIC BINDING - ST MATHIAS TRIER 1500 Start Price USD 1.00 Current Price USD 3,551.00 Time Left - Bid Count 20 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, July 19, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Location Olcott Beach, NY See more about 'INCUNABULA Pseudo Albertus Magnus COMPENDIUM THEOLOGICÆ' Description [Incunabula] [History of Printing] [Albertus Magnus ( pseudo) ] [Saint Thomas Aquinas (pseudo)] Hugo Ripelin Argentinensis (Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg): Compendium Theologicæ Veritatis; Venice; 31 July, 1500; Petrus de Quarengiis ("Impressum Venetijs: P[er] magistrum Petru[m] de Pare[n]ghis Pergome[n]se[m]" ); Royal Octavo (6½ inches by 9 inches - 16.5 cm by 22.5 cm); 88 (of 88) leaves, forming 176 pages, unpaginated: foliated regularly in eights: a - l8 in agreement with the Registrum printed on leaf 88 recto, as well as with the cataloguing notes entered in OCLC by the University Of California, i.e.: "Also attributed to Hugo Argentinensis./ Reprinted from Bevilaqua's 1492 edition, with headlines added./ Imprint from colophon. Colophon: Explicit compendiu[m] theologice veritatis. Impressum Venetijs p[er] magistrum Petru[m] de Pare[n]ghis Pergome[n]se[m]. Anno d[omi]ni M. ccccc. die ultimo Iulij./ Variant colophon. Cf. GW, "statt quaregis auch pareghis."/ Signatures: a-l8 (i3 signed i2)./ Printed in two columns, 47 lines and headline; 163 (170) x 113 mm./ Capital spaces with guide letters. This example with the Colophon in the First State, as shown in the images below. In Good antiquarian condition, in original calf over boards, rebacked, with an early 18th century backstrip, the original leather relaid with artistic sympathy, over original thick wooden boards; catches and latches perished; the original leather quarter cover heavily worn, but still clearly exhibiting two of the individual tools of Die Benediktinerkloster Sankt Matthias Trier, that is The Binder of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Matthias (vide: Einbanddatenbank workshop w-002187), as clearly shown in three examples housed in The British Library, to with: Shelfmark Hirsch I-124; Shelfmark IA-5111 and Shelfmark IB-8651, the whole double-ruled in blind; sewn on three vast cords, the spine divided in four compartments, each likewise double-ruled in blind; forty-seven lines, plus running heads and signature marks, in Latin, in double columns, in two distinct Gothica Antiqua Black Letter faces, being Type10:56G (M91) GfT1903, and Type 8:62/63G (M94) GfT1734; first state of the text (priority established); with the Registrum, Prologue and individual Tabulæ all present and complete; capital spaces with printed guide letters, unrubricated; original front and rear paste-downs formed of vellum leaves from an exceptional 14th century Alsatian Psalter, the rear paste-down pasted over an even older manuscript on paper, used to patch a small hole in the later vellum from below. Overall, a brilliantly fresh example of one of the rarest and most important books in the history of printing - used for more than four centuries as the definitive textbook for Religious Philosophy in nearly every University and Seat of Learning throughout Europe - this example showing the marginalia of its previous owners, in a fine fifteenth century Monastic hand, with the insights of the Brotherhood especially prevalent in the section De Ultimus Temporibus. Provenance: Original ownership written to the top of rear paste-down: Click thumbnail for a full-sized view. i.e.: This book is the property of the Benedictine Brotherhood of the Monastery of Saint Matthias' Abbey Church (Abtei St. Matthias) at Trier." Provenance: from the Library of St. Mathias's Monastery, south of Trier, which houses the relics of St. Matthias, the apostle who was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot. The 12th-century church, part of an active Benedictine abbey, is still visited by many Catholic pilgrims. This example bound at the Monastery, by Die Benediktinerkloster Sankt Matthias Trier. The original library was divided at auction in the 1850s as part of a renovations project - the time at which The British Library acquired the three books noted above, also bound by Die Benediktinerkloster Sankt Matthias Trier. Copies worldwide located by WorldCat: 4, under OCLC Accession Number 39259695. Citations: Hain [Repertotium Bibliographicum, in quo Libri Omnes ab Arte Typographica Inventa usque ad Annum 1500. Typis Expressi Ordine Alphabetico vel Simpliciter Enumerantur vel Adcuratius Recensentur; Stuttgart; 1826-1838; Cottae and Renouard, publishers; Ludwig Hain, editor and compiler; ]: C - 445. Proctor [An Index Of Early Printed Books In The British Museum, From The Invention Of Printing To The Year 1500, With Notes of Those in the Bodleian Library: London; 1898 – 1906; K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, publishers; Robert Proctor, compiler; Konrad Burger, editor]: 5490. Goff [Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections: New York; 1973; Kraus International, publishers; Frederick Goff, editor]: A-242 . BMC [Catalogue Of Books Printed In The 15th Century, Now In The British Museum: London; 1908; The British Museum Society, publishers]: V: 515. IGI [Centro Nazionale d'Informazioni Bibliografiche: Indice Generale degli Incunaboli delle Biblioteche d'Italia: Rome; 1943; La Libreria della Stato, publishers; Enrichetta Valenziani, editor]: 176. Pell [Catalogue Général des Incunables des Bibliothèques Publiques de France; Paris, 1897; Marie Pellechet, editor]: 283. GW [Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke; Leipzig; 1925; K. W. Hiersemann, publishers; Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, compilers]: 611. BSB Ink: [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog; Wiesbaden; 1988; L. Reichert, publishers]: H-408. Click either thumbnail for a full-sized view. The work consists of seven books which treat of the Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, Grace, the Sacraments, and the Last Four Things. In the entire medieval literature there is probably no work whose composition has in the past been attributed to so many different authors. It is now dated to 1268. Listed by Goff under Albertus Magnus, doubtless owed to the fact that in the 1557 of Lyons edition, furnished with notes and index by the Franciscan John of Combes, it is credited to the Dominican Albert the Great, the incunabula of Venice, Lyons, Strasburg, Ulm, and Nuremberg enumerated by Ludwig Hain are, nonetheless, all without the author's name. Some attribute it to the Dominican Ulrich of Strasburg. Bach in the Kirchenlexicon (I, 427) make Albert of Strasburg the author, but recent researches go to show that such a person never existed. Thomas Dorinberg, who supplied the edition of 1473 with an index, was for a long time looked upon as the author; others attributed it to Thomas Aquinas. Among other theologians to whom it was ascribed are Bonaventura, Hugh of Saint Cher, Alexander of Hales, Aureolus, the Oxford Dominican Thomas of Sutton, Peter of Tarantasia and others. Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (c.1205 - c.1270) was a Dominican theologian from Alsace. He is now considered to be the author of the Compendium theologiae or Compendium theologicae veritatis. On account of its scope and style, as well as its practical arrangement, it was for 400 years used as a text-book. It was undoubtedly the most widely read theological work of the later Middle Ages, in western Europe, and the edition of 1500 is listed in the archives of The University of Paris as the standard text as late as 1882. Of Hugh of Strasburg, Henry Joseph Schroeder (in Volume Seven of The Catholic Encyclopedia: New York: 1913; Robert Appleton Company, publishers) notes: "Theologian, flourished during the latter half of the thirteenth century. The dates of his birth and death are unknown. His prominence in the history of medieval theology is due to the fact that he is now considered to be the author of the famous "Compendium theologiae" or "Compendium theologicae veritatis", which, on account of its scope and style, as well as its practical arrangement, was for 400 years used as a text-book. By reason of its extensive use and wide circulation it was often copied and later more often printed and reprinted. The work consists of seven books which treat of the Creation, the Fall, the Incarnation, Grace, the Sacraments, and the Last Four Things. In the entire medieval literature there is probably no work whose composition has, till very recently, been attributed to so many different authors. The incunabula of Venice, Lyons, Strasburg, Ulm, and Nuremberg enumerated by Hain (Repert. bibliogr.) are without the author's name. Some attribute it to the Dominican Ulrich of Strasburg. Bach in the "Kirchenlexicon" (I, 427) makes Albert of Strasburg the author, but recent reseraches go to show that such a person never existed. Thomas Dorinberg, who supplied the edition of 1473 with an index, was for a long time looked upon as the author; others attributed it to St. Thomas Aquinas. In the magnificent edition of Lyons (1557), furnished with notes and index by the Franciscan John of Combes, it is credited to the Dominican Albert the Great and is placed in the folio edition of the latter's works published at Lyons (1651). Again, some held St. Bonaventure to be its author, with the result that the "Compendium" found a place in the appendix of the eighth volume of his works (Rome, 1588-96). Among other great theologians to whom it was ascribed are Hugh of Saint Cher, Alexander of Hales, Aureolus, the Oxford Dominican Thomas Sutton, Peter of Tarantasia and others. Recent investigations go to show, however, that the "Compendium" cannot be the work of any of these, but was most probably, if not certainly, written by Hugh of Stasburg. Other works attributed to him are: "Commentarium in IV libros sententiarum"; "Quodlibeta, quaestiones, disputationes et variae in divinos libros explanationes." Click either thumbnail for a full-sized view. Some notes on the binding and vellum pastedowns: As with the binderies and scriptoria of many Monasteries in the fifteenth century, materials from earlier works were often recycled by The Binder of the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Matthias, and several examples of this binder's work show leaves from the same - or from a very similar manuscript - used as endleaves and / or paste-downs. The leaves employed here as binder's waste, to form the paste-downs, are executed in a fine, late fourteenth century Germanic Gothic Book-hand, written in black, with the rubrics in red, and each with one larger initial, decorated in red and blue. Doubtless originally from a fine but probably then-outdated Benedictine Psalter, the text hereupon is from the Thirty-First Psalm of David - the Second, and one of the most important of The Seven Penitential Psalms: "Beati quorum remissae sunt iniquitates et quorum tecta sunt peccata Beatus vir cui non inputabit Dominus peccatum nec est in spiritu eius dolus Quoniam tacui inveteraverunt ossa mea dum clamarem tota die Quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua conversus sum in aerumna mea; dum configitur mihi; spina diapsalma Delictum meum cognitum tibi; feci et iniustitiam meam non abscondi dixi confitebor adversus me iniustitiam meam Domino et tu remisisti impietatem peccati mei diapsalma Pro hac orabit ad te omnis sanctus in tempore oportuno verumtamen in diluvio aquarum multarum ad eum non adproximabunt Tu es refugium meum a tribulatione quae circumdedit me exultatio mea erue me a circumdantibus me diapsalma Intellectum tibi dabo et instruam te in via hac qua gradieris firmabo super te oculos meos Nolite fieri sicut equus et mulus quibus non est intellectus in camo et freno maxillas eorum constringe qui non adproximant ad te Multa flagella peccatoris sperantem autem in Domino misericordia circumdabit Laetamini in Domino et exultate iusti et gloriamini omnes recti corde." "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart." Trier is Germany's oldest city, founded in 2000 BC by Assyrians colonists, which later became the Roman colony of Augusta Treverorum, in 16 BC. Trier became a favored residence of several Roman emperors and eventually became known as "the second Rome, and was the imperial capital of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman Emperor, and the church he built here in the 4th century AD (Trier Cathedral) is Germany's oldest. Catholic pilgrims still come to Trier in large numbers to honor the relic of the Holy Robe at the Dom St. Peter and the tomb of St. Matthias in the Benedictine church named for him. Only but very seldom does a book from the great monastic library at Saint Matthias come to public sale, the most recent auction record for a book from the Monastery being that in Christie’s New York sale of 22 October, 1987 - the 1491 Praeceptorium divinae, then the property of Estelle Doheny. We are pleased to offer this milestone in the History of Printing for your consideration, and to ship this volume anywhere in the world, via insured carrier, at no additional cost. Residents of New York State are responsible for 8% Sales Tax. Place a Bid!