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Legende de'beati del Terzo Ordine di San Francesco. Vicenza: Henricus de Sancto Ursio, Zenus, [ca.1497].
4° (202 x 149mm). Collation: a-l8 m10 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r-m9v text, m9v colophon, m10r additional manes of the beatified, m10v blank). 98 leaves, 30 lines. Type: 111R. Capital spaces with guide-letters. (Light waterstaining and unimportant inkstains and fingermarks, lower inner margins of quire f reinforced.) Near contemporary cartone alla rustica with 3 leather thongs (slightly soiled), modern cloth box. Provenance: T. Kerrick M.C.C. (18th-century signature on front free end-paper).
FIRST and only edition of these short biographies of seven saints and beatified belonging to the Third Order of the Franciscans including Galeotto Roberto Malatesta and Louis IX of France. The Third Order of the Franciscans, or Tertiaties, was instituted in 1221 by St. Francis himself to provide a rule for the great body of the laity, married men and women, who could not leave the world or abandon their avocations, but still were part of the Franciscan movement and desired to carry out in their lives its spirit and teaching. On the recto of the last leaf is a list of thirteen additional names of the beatified as set down in Bartholomaeus de Pisis' Liber conformitatum. HR 999; BMC VII-1047 (IA 31857); IGI 5721; Goff L-123.
4° (202 x 149mm). Collation: a-l8 m10 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r-m9v text, m9v colophon, m10r additional manes of the beatified, m10v blank). 98 leaves, 30 lines. Type: 111R. Capital spaces with guide-letters. (Light waterstaining and unimportant inkstains and fingermarks, lower inner margins of quire f reinforced.) Near contemporary cartone alla rustica with 3 leather thongs (slightly soiled), modern cloth box. Provenance: T. Kerrick M.C.C. (18th-century signature on front free end-paper).
FIRST and only edition of these short biographies of seven saints and beatified belonging to the Third Order of the Franciscans including Galeotto Roberto Malatesta and Louis IX of France. The Third Order of the Franciscans, or Tertiaties, was instituted in 1221 by St. Francis himself to provide a rule for the great body of the laity, married men and women, who could not leave the world or abandon their avocations, but still were part of the Franciscan movement and desired to carry out in their lives its spirit and teaching. On the recto of the last leaf is a list of thirteen additional names of the beatified as set down in Bartholomaeus de Pisis' Liber conformitatum. HR 999; BMC VII-1047 (IA 31857); IGI 5721; Goff L-123.