Accession number
PML 25146
Creator
Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380.
Object title
Libro de la diuina prouide[n]tia co[m]posto in u[o]lgare de la Seraphica uergene sa[n]cta Chaterina da siena suore del terzo ordi[n]e d[e] sa[n]cto Dominico. esse[n]do lei me[n]tre che ditaua al suo scriptore rapta i[n] si[n]gular excesso & abstrat[i]o[n]e de me[n]te. In questo libro i[n]teruiene il parlame[n]to tra dio padre & la verzene chaterina per modo de Dialogo zoe in modo de parlare che i[n]teruiene tra doe persone. Et in esso se co[n]tiene alti & suauissimi secreti diuini.
Published
[Bologna] : [Balthasar Azoguidus], [approximately 1475]
Description
[147] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from caption on leaf [1]/2r, preceded by: "Al nome de [all in capitals] Iesu christo crucifixo & d[e] maria dolze & del glorioso patriarcha Dominico.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Azoguidus's type 2:99R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-3⁸ 4⁶ 5-6⁸ 7⁸ (8+1*: che modo conuiene) 8-13⁸ 14⁶ 15⁸ 16-18⁶ 19¹⁰]: 147 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Text in two columns, with captions narrower than the text and some in the shape of a triangle or hour-glass.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy with blank leaf, conjugate of [7]/8+1*, after [8]/8. Leaves [8]/6-7 remargined.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Azoguidus's type 2:99R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-3⁸ 4⁶ 5-6⁸ 7⁸ (8+1*: che modo conuiene) 8-13⁸ 14⁶ 15⁸ 16-18⁶ 19¹⁰]: 147 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Text in two columns, with captions narrower than the text and some in the shape of a triangle or hour-glass.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy with blank leaf, conjugate of [7]/8+1*, after [8]/8. Leaves [8]/6-7 remargined.
Binding
19th-century stiff vellum over paper boards (28 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Libro de la divina providentia composto in volgare de la seraphica vergene Sancta Caterina da Siena
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, some paragraph marks highlighted in red. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Dec. 1927.
Classification
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