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Vite de sancti padri.

Accession number
PML 25147
Creator
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Object title

Vite de sancti padri.

Published

Stampite in Milano : per Dominico da Vespolate, a di .xii. de Iulio M.CCCC.LXXVI. [12 July 1476].

Description

[256] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Income[n]ciano le vite di sancti padri per diversi eloquentissimi doctori vulgarizate.
Imprint from colophon (leaf II7r).
Printed in Vespola's type 1:105/106R.
Collation: [A-HH⁸; II⁸]: 256 leaves, leaves A1 and II8 blank. Signatures stamped in far bottom right corners, mostly trimmed--unclear to tell exact progression of signatures.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Domenico Cavalca.
With Johannes Moschus, Il prato spirituale, translated by Feo Belcari.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 22 cm., trimmed.
PML copy with tabula (quire II) bound first.
Binding
18th-century(?) Italian vellum over paper boards (32 x 23 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Sprinkled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbads; blue edges.
Variant title
Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Brescia (Lombardy), St. Barnabas, Augustinians, inscription: "Bibliotece S. Barnabe Bixie," 17th century (leaf A2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Dec. 1927.
Classification
Century
Department