Al nome de Yhesu Christo crucifixo comencia el prologo de fra Guido del libro infrascripto cioe de loro evangelii con le expositione fatte per frate Simone da Cassia del ordine de sancto Augustino.

Accession number:

PML 79156

Author:

Fidati, Simone, -1348.

Published:

Venetia : p[er] Hannibal da Foxo da Parma, MCCCCLXXXVI Adi penultimo d[ie] Decembrio [30 December 1486].

Description:

[4], 152 leaves ; 29.5 x 19 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf t8r): Finito el quarto libro de li Evangelii con le expositione el quale tracta sopra la passione & morte & resurectione del nostro signore yhesu christo vulgarizato per frate Simone da Cassia del ordine de frati Heremitani. Impresso in Venetia p[er] Hannibal da Foxo da Parma: nello anno del .M.CCCCLXXXVI. Adi penultimo d[ie] Decembrio Regna[n]do lo Principe misser Agustino Barbadigo Dux di Venetia.
Printed in Foxius's type 4:84R.
Collation: [1]⁴; a-t⁸: 156 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Spaces left for initials, with guide letters.
Edited by Fra Guido (i.e. Giovanni da Salerno).
Note in Curt Bühler's accession list (Morgan Library, Dept. of Printed Books): "This work is not an Italian version of the 'Expositio super totum Evangeliorum' as Hain supposed."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 18.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern stiff vellum (29.5 x 19 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified Italian inscription: "Carissimo mio quanto [??, abraded]," 1513-1541 (leaf [1]/1r); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 94, purchased from Renzo Rizzi, Milan, 5 Jan. 1966; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books