Pacificus Novariensis, Sommola de pacifica coscienza, Brescia, 1497, later vellum

Pacificus Novariensis

Sommola de pacifica coscienza. Brescia: Baptista Farfengus, 12 September 1497

4to (198 x 147mm.), 112 leaves, a-o⁸, double column, 42 lines, gothic type, eighteenth-century vellum, first two leaves stained and repaired at foredge, final leaf repaired at lower corner, occasional light staining, a few small wormholes

Pacificus was a fifteenth-century Franciscan preacher from Cerano near Novara. His work on how to hear confession was first printed in Milan in 1486.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ip00002000

PROVENANCE:

"Pertinet ad locum S. Pa[duli?] Lodii dona de [--]", inscription at foot of second leaf