Mirabilia Romae.

Accession number:

PML 127077

Uniform title:

Mirabilia Romae.

Published:

[Sant'Orso] : [Johannes de Reno], [about 1475]

Description:

[8] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1990. NNPM

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW identifies imprint as [Vicenza: Johannes Renensis, about 1473]. The printer was seemingly active about 1473-75 in Padua, in 1475 in Sant'Orso, and from 1476-82 in Vicenza.
Printed in type 1:97R.
Signatures: [1⁸]: 8 leaves. GW records as: [1⁶ 2²]: 8 leaves
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
Watermarks in paper: bird (goose/duck) similar to WZIS, nos. 42135 (Verona, 1470) and Briquet, 12125 (Vicenza, 1459).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 14.7 cm. NNPM

Binding:

Wrapper of a manuscript on parchment (missal, of 2 columns and 27 lines (22 x 15 cm), with red and blue initials), externally sewn on 4 stations. Two sets of plain paper endleaves: 1) early, with watermark similar to Briquet 12223 (Naples, 1502), leaves include staining and rear leaf includes early false-imprint inscriptions; 2) with watermark similar to Briquet 6089 (Lucca, 1587). NNPM

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication (initial space leaf [1]/1r) unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early inscription, mainly illegible (leaf [1]/8v, above Vernia inscription). Inscription: "Finis. Laus deo. M.CCCC.L.xxv xii Aprilis. G. Tarvisii. F." (rear endleaf 1 recto), copied from 1475 Treviso edition (ISTC im00590500). NNPM

Provenance:

Nicoletto Vernia (d. 1499), bequeathed to: Vicenza, Augustinian Canons, St. Bartholomeo, inscription: "Istum librum reiquid Eximius artium doctor magister Nicoletus Theatinus huic monasterio Ste. Bartolomei dusum(?) amonicorum Regularium comorantium in dicto orite pro eius Anima ut si inpenis sit liberatus" (leaf [1]/8v; see S. Villani, "Un testamento di Nicoletto Vernia e le vicende dei suoi libri," Quaderni per la storia dell'Università di Padova, 34 (2001), pp. 337-50), monastery suppressed in 1772 and library transferred to: Praglia, Benedictines, Santa Maria, which was in tern suppressed in 1810; Franklin H. Kissner (1909-1988), his sale: Christie's London, 3 Oct. 1990, lot 282; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased via Albi Rosenthal, Oct. 1990. NPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books