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Monte Rochen, Guido de (active circa 1330) Manipulus Curatorum.
London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1509.
Octavo, woodcut to title page depicting two monks facing each other in a church; the central woodcut surrounded by a border of abstract floral forms; de Worde's woodcut printer's device to verso of final leaf; text in single column in black letter throughout; six-line contemporary Latin inscription on verso of title, signature in the same hand of John Restal on last text leaf; bound in full brown morocco by Riviere; ex libris Estelle Doheny, with her red morocco book ticket inside front board; aeg.; York Minster Cathedral Library ink shelfmark on title and second leaf; this copy purchased in 1930 by A.S.W. Rosenbach; sold in the 14 December 2001 Doheny sale; 5 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.
STC 12475; ESTC S111296.
Guido de Monte Rochen [aka Guy de Montrocher] was a French priest and jurist who was active around 1331. He is best known as the author of Manipulus Curatorum, a curate's manual, or handbook for parish priests. This popular work survives in 180 complete or partial manuscripts, and was continuously in print throughout Europe over the next 200 years. Historical sales figures for the 119 or so printings are estimated to be three times those of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. The Manipulus became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the official Roman Catechism in 1566.
