• ST THOMAS AQUINAS, DE ARTICULIS FIDEI. [Mainz: Konrad Humery & Peter Schoeffer, Second Impression, 34 Lines, ca. 1469]

Collections:
  • Incunabula at Princeton
  • In Principio
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Catholicon Press grouping
  • The Scheide Library
  • Treasures of Rare Book Division
Curatorial Note:
  • In the early 1450s Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, papal legate to Germany, travelled through many dioceses encouraging clerical reforms. Among his reforms, he enjoined upon all clergy an obligation to read and understand Aquinas’s brief tract against heresies, De articulis fidei. The first edition thus had a direct, prepared clerical audience. Type-pages were assembled in 36 lines, that is 18 two-line strips; the entire text was contained on 12 leaves. The paper stock of the Aquinas tract is found in dated documents of 1457-1460. Seven copies survive, none in America. When De articulis fidei was reprinted, a year after Gutenberg’s death, the two-line strips were assembled into type-pages of 34 lines, that is 17 two-line strips per page. This extended the length of the pamphlet to 13 leaves. The paper stocks of this edition are found in documents dated 1468-1470. Many more copies survive of the second impression than of the first. A significant number of these are bound with Cologne quarto editions of the late 1460s, suggesting that they were on the market at the same time.
Bookseller:
  • Karl & Faber
Author:
  • Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Provenance:
  • WHS fragment is Oettingen-Wallerstein Library's copy, acquired 9/6/34 from Karl & Faber.
Former owner:
  • Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek
Creator:
  • Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Language:
  • Latin
Call number:
  • 31.20
Extent:
  • 14 leaves ; 19.3 x 14 cm.
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Early works to 1800
Publisher:
  • [Mainz : Printer of the 1460 'Catholicon' (Johann Gutenberg), ca. 1469].
Subject:
  • Catholic Church—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
  • Lord's Supper—Catholic Church—Early works to 1800
Title sort:
  • De articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis [fragment].
References:
  • Goff T-273.
Printer:
  • Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
Created:
  • 1469-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1469
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/70795c98t
Location:
  • WHS 31.20
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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