ALBERTUS DE FERRARIIS

Tractatus de horis canonicis dicendis pulcherrimus: a domino Alberto de Ferrariis utriusque iuris doctore de Placentia editus. Nuremberg, Hieronymus Höltzel, 20 April,

      - Sm. 4to. [22]ff. Boards. 1507. First published in Ulm, c. 1476, and republished many times over the following 40 years, this work has been attributed by Hain and others to Alberto Trotti owing to a similarity of names (see: L. A. Sheppard, Albertus Trottus and Albertus Ferrariis in The Library, vol. 5, no. 2, (Sep-Dec. 1947), p. 158-9.). The authoir was a canon of the cathedral of Piacenza, later becoming vicar-general of the bishop, and proctor of the clergy of Piacenza at the council of Basle in 1535. The work was designed to instruct the clergy in their duties to themselves and to their parishioners, as well as describing their legal status and offices, and listing the punishments for breaking regulations. Excellent condition. Not in Adams.