Stella Clericorum Cuilibet Clerico Summe Necessaria
- Title
- Stella Clericorum Cuilibet Clerico Summe Necessaria
- Description
- A popular treatise of the late middle-ages, 'Stella Clericorum' (star of the clerics) was written around 1200 and expounded on the dignity of the priesthood. It survives in 450 manuscript copies and at least 80 printed editions from the 15th and 16th centuries, often featuring illustrated titlepages. This edition from around 1489 was printed in Cologne and is 18 pages long. Large initials have been added to the printed text by hand in red and blue and marginal annotations and underlining throughout the text show how the pamphlet was used by its early readers. It ends with a short laudatory poem, 'In Laudem Libelli'- In Praise of the Book.
- Publication Place
- Cologne
- Publisher
- Heinrich Quentell
- Date
- [1489-93]
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Century
- 15th
- Subject
- Clergy