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

Accession number: 
PML 23212
Author: 
Bettini, Antonio, 1396-1487.
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.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books