Uita di sancti padri uulgare historiata.

Accession number: 
PML 372
Uniform title: 
Vitae patrum. Italian.
Published: 
Stampate ne l'alma citta de Venetia : Per Christophoro di Pensa, MCCCCLXXXXVIIII a di v decembrio [5 December 1499]
Description: 
[312] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Begins, leaf a2r: Incominciano le uite de sancti padri per diuersi eloquentissimi doctori uulgarizate.
Imprint from colophon (leaf u8r): Alaude e gloria de lomnipotente Idio & de la gloriosissima vergine Maria. Qui finisse le vite de Sancti padri vulgare historiate e stampate ne lalma citta de Venetia per Christophoro di pensa M.CCCC.LXXXXYIIII [sic] Adi .v. decembrio. FINIS.
Printed in Pensis's types 9:160G and 10:80R.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-d⁶ e-u⁸: 156 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Domenico Cavalca. Prato spirituale translated by Feo Belcari.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
Illustrations: half-page woodcut (St. Paul the Hermit) within historiated architectural woodcut border, and 250 small woodcuts (including many repeats) several of which are signed "b," "J" or "i." All but the border had previously appeared in the 1491 Venice edition.
"Incomincia il prato spirituale de sancti padri co[m]posto da sancto Gioanni Euerato": leaves q2v-u4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.2 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: t4-5.

Binding: 
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Vita di sancti padri vulgare historiata

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
[Previously bound with Legendario de sancti (PML 371)] Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 3905, to Dobell for £122 but returned as defective, 2nd sale, Sotheby's, 9 May 1898, lot 169 to Pickering for £99; [works separated by Pickering or Bennett]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 32a, 13/12/98 and price code: o/l/- and for No. 31a wml/y/a (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books