Authorship attributed to Hermannus Zittart, penitentiary of the Archbishop of Cologne, in Kaeppeli, T. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 1883. Goff M-213 gives the GW form of the name as Hermannus de Sittard., Binding: contemporary pigskin-backed wooden boards, one clasp and catch; medieval ms. paste-downs at front and back from a German ninth-cent. Latin Bible (texts of Jeremiah 6:10-13 and 6:28-7:3)., Bought in Feb. 1995; the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Few spaces, with guide-letters, left for capitals; other capitals printed. Rubricated throughout. Printer's full-page device on K6v and M6v; both impressions have coat-of-arms supplied in red in lower shield. Few ms. notes., Imperfect: K7-8 and L⁴ wanting., Imprint from colophon on final leaf; colophon on leaf 180r gives precise day., and Provenance: "2207 c. fr. O P." (ms. on t.p.) indicating ownership by Frankfurt Dominicans (Dominkanerkloster Frankfurt am Main).
Publisher:
Per me Hermannu[m] Bungart de Retwych ...,
Subject (Name):
Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Confession--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Poetry., Incunabula in Yale Library., Penitentials--Early works to 1800., and Sin--Poetry.
