2. Astesanus De Ast, d. 1330?

Summa de casibus conscientiae

[Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1473]

Description

Paper. 433 leaves; 396 x 255 mm (fol.) Gothic type; double columns, 62 lines per column. L.403 and 424 are blank. Lacks initial decoration; first folio leaf framed. There is no colophon or printing date.

Binding

Calf covers detached. Spine title reads: Corpus Juris

Printer

Johann Mentelin was the first printer in Strassburg. He was a former illuminator and episcopal notary who set up a printing press about 1458. According to J.P. de Lignamine's Chronica Summorum Pontificum (Rome, 1474) Mentelin was at that time (1458) printing 300 sheets a day. He printed the editio princeps of Virgil and printed the first German Bible, issued in 1460-61. He continued to print at Strassburg until 1477-78. He died on 12 December 1478.

Provenance

1. Canon William Ardene Shoults 2. Selwyn College; Otago University Library

Reference

HC(+Add) 1889*; BMC I 56; Goff A1161; Kaplan 38; ISTC ia01161000; GW 2750

Illustrations

First page of text proper; f.252 with inky cat's paw.