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Libro llamado Flor de Virtudes : el qual fue compuesto en lengua Ytaliana, y reformado por los padres religiosos de sant Francisco de Venecia. Y agora impresso conforme a la verdad de aquel original: y mejorado.

Accession number
PML 79322
Published
Valencia : En casa de Juan Nauarro, el primer dia del mes de Julio. Año M.D. LXXii. [1 July 1572].
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e8v.
Signatures: a-e⁸: 40 leaves.
2 woodcuts; printed initials.
PML copy with many corners and edges damaged, repaired (at Morgan by Patricia Reyes).
Description
[1], ii-xxxix, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: Underlining throughout text. Unidentified Spanish inscriptions, illegible due to losses to paper (leaves a1r and e8v).
Provenance
Francisco Comas, inscription: "Comprado por D. Fran.co. Comas á Pereda el dia 9 de Julio de 1869" (front endleaf 3 verso); Curt F. Bühler, Lib. 254, purchased from H.P. Kraus, 24 July 1970; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Binding
Spanish limp vellum (over manuscript waste), sewn on 2 supports; repaired by Deborah Evetts. 2 knot and loop ties.
Classification
Department