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Comincia la vita della gloriosissima Vergine Maria.

Accession number
PML 327
Creator
Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484.
Object title

Comincia la vita della gloriosissima Vergine Maria.

Published

In Venetia : per Maestro Luca di Dominico Venitiano, ne glianni del signor Mcccc.Lxxxi adi xvii Febraro [17 February 1481/82].

Description

[32] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f4v: Impressa fu questa degna opereta per Maestro Luca di dominico ve[n]itiano In Venetia ne glia[n]ni del signor Mcccc.Lxxxi adi xvii Febraro Ducante inclito principe Ioa[n]ne Mocenico.
Printed in Dominici's type 1:93R.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-f⁴: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
Binding
Modern blind-tooled full black goatskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Della santissima vita di Nostra Donna
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian (Venice) illuminated foliate border and initial (leaf a2r), red initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified armorial (overpainted or abraded?) (leaf a2r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 72, 13/7/94 (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department