Accession number
PML 788
Published
Vinegia, Giova[n]niandrea Vavassore ditto Vadagnino, [approximately 1530].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf H6v): Opera di Giova[n]niandrea Vavassore ditto Vadagnino: Stampata novamete nella inelita citta di Vinegia Laus Deo.
Signatures: A-H⁸: 64 leaves, leaf H8 blank.
120 woodcuts, of which 26 are Italian designs and the rest copied from the Netherlandish Biblia pauperum blockbook and the Little Passion of Durer.
An Italian blockbook in imitation of the Biblia Pauperum.
Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori.
PML copy is Schreiber issue A, in gothic characters and with the woodcut of the Virgin on the last leaf bordered by a plain line.
PML copy with the woodcut on leaf F7r printed upside-down.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: H8 (blank).
Signatures: A-H⁸: 64 leaves, leaf H8 blank.
120 woodcuts, of which 26 are Italian designs and the rest copied from the Netherlandish Biblia pauperum blockbook and the Little Passion of Durer.
An Italian blockbook in imitation of the Biblia Pauperum.
Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori.
PML copy is Schreiber issue A, in gothic characters and with the woodcut of the Virgin on the last leaf bordered by a plain line.
PML copy with the woodcut on leaf F7r printed upside-down.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: H8 (blank).
Description
[64] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 15.5 x 10 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Claudio Artezaga (or Arteraga?), signature, 16th century (front endleaf 1 recto); Andrea Tessier collection, Tessier sale, Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 21 May 1900, lot 326; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1906.
Binding
16th-century Italian blind-tooled calf over paper boards, with 14th/15th-century manuscript pastedowns.
Classification
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