Incominciano le deuote meditatio[n]e sopra la passione del Nostro Signore.

Accession number:

PML 196267

Uniform title:

Meditationes vitae Christi. Italian.

Published:

Venice : Bernardino Benali [and Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca)], [before 6 April 1491]

Description:

34 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (11 woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler and L.C. Harper D-1 Funds, 2016.

Notes:

Incipit (leaf a1r): Incomiciano le devote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore cavate & fu[n]date originalme[n]te sopra sancto Bonave[n]tura cardinale del ordine minore sopra Nicolao de Lira: etiam dio sopra altri doctori & predicatori approbati.
Colophon (leaf e6v): Finisse le meditatio[n]e del nostro signore impresse i[n] Venetia per Bernardino di Benali: A honore de lo omnipotente Dio. E della gloriosa Vergine Maria. Amen.
Printed in types 6:110R and 7:80R.
Collation: a⁸ b-c⁶ d⁸ e⁶: 34 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Ascribed to Pseudo-St. Bonaventure. BBFN attributes to Johannes de Caulibus.
According to ISTC and GW, only 2 other copies known (as of June 2016).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.1 x 14.0 cm.

Binding:

19th-century crushed brown morocco with gilt turn-ins.

Variant Title:

Devote meditatione sopra la passione del Nostro Signore

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Walter Ashburner (1864-1936), Florence, stamps; his sale, Hoepli, Florence, 26-27 June 1938, lot 33; Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, Vente 7, 29-30 April 1954, lot 9; W.H. Schab, Cat. 21, 1955, no. 47, Cat. 24, 1959, no. 122, Cat. 27, 1960, no. 18, also Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucern, Cat. 24, 1956, no. 63; Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), Schweinfurt, stamp: OS 162 (rear pastedown), purchased from Schab, 1960; his sale, Sotheby's NY, 8 Dec. 1994, lot 40 (unsold), Sotheby's NY, 4 Dec. 1996, lot 227; Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 13 April 2011, lot 1057; Meda Riquier Rare Books, Spring List, 2012, no. 3; Bruce McKittrick Rare Books; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick, June 2016.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Department:

Printed Books