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Libro del monte di dio et del monte delle orationi et scala del paradiso diuotissimo et spirituale.

Accession number
PML 23212
Creator
Bettini, Antonio, 1396-1487.
Object title

Libro del monte di dio et del monte delle orationi et scala del paradiso diuotissimo et spirituale.

Published

Impresso nella inclita cipta di Fire[n]ze : per Ser Lorenzo de Morgiani & Giouanni thodesco da Maganza, A di .xx. di Marzo .M.CCCC.XCL [20 March 1491].

Description

92 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (3 woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from title-page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf n4v): Impresso nella inclita cipta di Fire[n]ze con somma diligentia per Ser Lorenzo de Morgiani & Giouanni thodesco da Maganza. A di .xx. di Marzo .M.CCCC.XCL.
Printed in Morgiani's types 1:111R and 6:130G.
Signatures: [1⁴]; a-m⁸̇/⁶ n⁴: 92 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Gothic and Roman type (Proctor 6350); 2 columns, 39 lines.
3 large woodcuts (leaves [1]/1r, k4v, and m1v), copied from the copper engravings of the original edition of 1477 (Goff A-886).
Space left for primary initials (without guide letters), minor initials printed.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.8 x 20 cm., trimmed.
Binding
Modern gilt-tooled, laced parchment over paper boards (26.5 x 21 cm.), bound by H. Finkentscher, Leipzig, 1922. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Libro del monte di dio et del monte delle orationi et scala del paradiso divotissimo et spirituale
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized where required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, cut away (leaf [1]/1r); Gerhart Güttler (1889-1966), bull's head stamp (front fly leaf verso); Joseph Baer & Co., unknown catalogue, no. 31; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Baer, Dec. 1925.
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Department