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Title

Cordiale quattuor novissimorum

Varying form of title

Quattuor nouissimor[um] liber

Varying form of title

Quattuor nouissimorum liber

Imprint

[Paris] : Antoine Caillaut, [about 1485]

Physical description

42 leaves ; 190 mm (4to)

Note

Title and imprint from ISTC.

Note

Signatures: a-d⁸ e¹⁰.

Note

Title on leaf a2r: "Quattuor nouissimor[um] liber de morte videlicet, penis inferni, iudicio, et celesti gloria. que[m] pleriq[ue] cordiale appella[n]t".

Note

Colophon on leaf e10v: "Libellus quattuor nouissimor[um] finit feliciter: exaratus per Antoniu[m] Cayllaut.".

Note

The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and Gerardus de Vliederhoven (see ISTC ic00891500).

Citation/references note

ISTC, ic00891500

Citation/references note

GW, 7483

Citation/references note

CLC, C1713

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of R.A. Chermside M.D., with address “Paris Rue Taitbout” on upper pastedown.

Provenance

Book label of Salisbury Museum on upper pastedown: "Salisbury Museum Library Deposited 1920".

Provenance

Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, large format) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”

Binding

17th-century French parchment over paper boards; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with lines intersecting some way in from the edges; smooth spine; text block edges sprinkled red and blue; titles in ink on spine.

Copy-specific note

Fifteenth-century decoratation, possibly French, in green and red: five-line, 4-line, and 3-line initials; paragraph marks; line fillers; highlighting of printed capitals; underlining of part titles, chapter titles, words, and citations.

Copy-specific note

Marginal annotations in ink on leaf a6r (18th-century?).

Copy-specific note

Wanting leaf a1.

Copy-specific note

Bound with three other incunabula: Nicolas de Hannapes, Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta (Paris, 1477/78) (ISTC in00105000); Aurelius Augustinus, Sermones ad heremitas. Add. Homiliae duae (Strassbourg, not after 1487)(ISTC ia01314000); Speculum animae peccatricis (Paris, about 1482-84)(ISTC is00641600). The four may have been bound together by the early 16th century. All four have very similar fifteenth- (or early sixteenth-) century decoration added in green and red.

Subject

Eschatology Early works to 1800.

Added entry--name

Caillaut, Antoine, active 1483-1506 printer.

Added entry--name

Chermside, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1792–1860 former owner.

Added entry--name

Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471 attributed name.

Added entry--name

Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, active 14th century attributed name.

Added entry--name

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum former owner.

Added entry--place

France Paris.

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24500$aCordiale quattuor novissimorum

2463#$aQuattuor nouissimor[um] liber

2463#$aQuattuor nouissimorum liber

260##$a[Paris] :$bAntoine Caillaut,$c[about 1485]

300##$a42 leaves ;$b190 mm (4to)

500##$aTitle and imprint from ISTC.

500##$aSignatures: a-d<sup>8</sup> e<sup>10</sup>.

500##$aTitle on leaf a2r: "Quattuor nouissimor[um] liber de morte videlicet, penis inferni, iudicio, et celesti gloria. que[m] pleriq[ue] cordiale appella[n]t".

500##$aColophon on leaf e10v: "Libellus quattuor nouissimor[um] finit feliciter: exaratus per Antoniu[m] Cayllaut.".

500##$aThe text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and Gerardus de Vliederhoven (see ISTC ic00891500).

5104#$aISTC,$cic00891500

5104#$aGW,$c7483

5104#$aCLC,$cC1713

561##$aArmorial bookplate of R.A. Chermside M.D., with address “Paris Rue Taitbout” on upper pastedown.

561##$aBook label of Salisbury Museum on upper pastedown: "Salisbury Museum Library Deposited 1920".

561##$aSalisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, large format) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”

563##$a17th-century French parchment over paper boards; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with lines intersecting some way in from the edges; smooth spine; text block edges sprinkled red and blue; titles in ink on spine.

590##$aFifteenth-century decoratation, possibly French, in green and red: five-line, 4-line, and 3-line initials; paragraph marks; line fillers; highlighting of printed capitals; underlining of part titles, chapter titles, words, and citations.

590##$aMarginal annotations in ink on leaf a6r (18th-century?).

590##$aWanting leaf a1.

590##$aBound with three other incunabula: Nicolas de Hannapes, Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta (Paris, 1477/78) (ISTC in00105000); Aurelius Augustinus, Sermones ad heremitas. Add. Homiliae duae (Strassbourg, not after 1487)(ISTC ia01314000); Speculum animae peccatricis (Paris, about 1482-84)(ISTC is00641600). The four may have been bound together by the early 16th century. All four have very similar fifteenth- (or early sixteenth-) century decoration added in green and red.

650#0$aEschatology$eEarly works to 1800.

7001#$aCaillaut, Antoine,$dactive 1483-1506$eprinter.

7001#$aChermside, Robert Alexander,$cSir,$d1792–1860$eformer owner.

7001#$aDenis,$cthe Carthusian,$d402-1471$eattributed name.

7001#$aGerardus,$cde Vliederhoven,$dactive 14th century$dattributed name.

7102#$aSalisbury and South Wiltshire Museum,$eformer owner.

752##$aFrance$dParis.