Accession number
PML 3812
Creator
Castello, Alberto da, -1522.
Published
[Venetia : Impresso per Vittor della Serena & Compagni, 15 Jan. 1534]
Notes
Collation: A-Z⁸; AA-II⁸.
First published Venice, 1521. All succeeding printings to the 17th cent. are nearly identical.
For the use of members of the "Sacro collegio & fraternita del psalterio o vero rosario dela...virgine..." Includes the confraternity's constitution.
Illustrations: 200 woodcuts (including 8 repeats) comprising 21 almost full page cuts (1 on t.p.) and 167 smaller cuts. All had previously appeared in earlier editions. Ornamental and pictorial border pieces on almost every page. Initials. Printer's mark. In several of the borders is the design of a bird, with part of a rosary in his beak. Below the colophon Serena's device, a crowned Siren.
Includes Origine del Rosario instituto per San Dominico (ff. 10-)
See: Sander 6572-6573. See: Essling 2124 (II, 2, p. 426 footnote).
First published Venice, 1521. All succeeding printings to the 17th cent. are nearly identical.
For the use of members of the "Sacro collegio & fraternita del psalterio o vero rosario dela...virgine..." Includes the confraternity's constitution.
Illustrations: 200 woodcuts (including 8 repeats) comprising 21 almost full page cuts (1 on t.p.) and 167 smaller cuts. All had previously appeared in earlier editions. Ornamental and pictorial border pieces on almost every page. Initials. Printer's mark. In several of the borders is the design of a bird, with part of a rosary in his beak. Below the colophon Serena's device, a crowned Siren.
Includes Origine del Rosario instituto per San Dominico (ff. 10-)
See: Sander 6572-6573. See: Essling 2124 (II, 2, p. 426 footnote).
Description
252, 4 leaves : ill.
Provenance
At foot of t.p. the autog. sig. F. Jo: B. de Rubeis S.D. (possibly Brother Giuseppe Rossi, Society of Dominicans). From the collection of Clarence S. Bement with his bookplate, purchased by him from Ellis, 1881.
Binding
1/2 light green morocco.
Classification
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Department