NICOLAUS DE AUSMO [NICHOLAS OF OSIMO] [d. 1453].

Summa Pisani cum supplemento. [WITH:] ASTESANUS DE AST. Canones poenitentiales fratris Astensis.

      [Colophon on V6v:] [Cologne: Ulrich Zel], 21 February, 1483. - folio. 288 x 204 mm. ff. [1], 353. gothic type. 49 lines. 2 columns. initial spaces, some with guide letters. attractively rubricated, with capitals supplied in red or blue, paragraph marks & initial strokes in red, opening initial on a2r in red & blue with red scrollwork extending down the margin. full modern blind-stamped calf in period style (staining to C4-6 & to outer margins of first & last leaves, otherwise a very nice crisp wide-margined copy on thick paper). Finely printed edition of this popular handbook of canon law by Franciscan friar, Nicolaus De Ausmo. The author composed his revision and supplement to the Summa of Bartolommeo of Santo Concordio (Pisanus) at the Convent of Santa Maria de Angelis, near Milan, in 1444. As usual, appended here is a concise extract from the Summa de casibus conscientiae of Astesanus De Ast. BMC I 197. Goff N65. Hain-Copinger 2149. Oates 408. Pellechet 1637. Polain (B) 2807. Proctor 904.