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SAVONAROLA, Hieronymus (1452-98). Operetta sopra i dieci comandamenti. Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri [c. 1495-96].
Chancery 4° (199 x 133mm). Collation: a-c8 d4 (a1r title, woodcut, text, d4v woodcut, colophon). 28 leaves. 38 lines. Type: 4:85R. Two woodcuts: nuns kneeling to receive a book from 2 friars; a friar exhorting nuns, 2 Antiqua initials. (Small marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 19th-century black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Provenance: Marquese Gerolamo d'Adda (1815-1881, bookplate, his library bought en bloc by:) -- [Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919)].
First or second edition, and the FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE WOODCUTS. Libri printed an edition dated 24 October 1495, re-using earlier cuts, whereas the ones illustrating the Morgiani and Petri edition were cut specifically for it. Von Arnim describes the cuts as depicting Savonarola himself, presenting his tractate to the nuns of Murate in the first one and blessing them in the second. HR 14442; BMC VI, 684 (IA. 27952); Giovannozzi 149; IGI 8749; Kristeller Early Florentine Woodcuts 377a; Sander 6804; Goff S-225.
Chancery 4° (199 x 133mm). Collation: a-c
First or second edition, and the FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE WOODCUTS. Libri printed an edition dated 24 October 1495, re-using earlier cuts, whereas the ones illustrating the Morgiani and Petri edition were cut specifically for it. Von Arnim describes the cuts as depicting Savonarola himself, presenting his tractate to the nuns of Murate in the first one and blessing them in the second. HR 14442; BMC VI, 684 (IA. 27952); Giovannozzi 149; IGI 8749; Kristeller Early Florentine Woodcuts 377a; Sander 6804; Goff S-225.
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