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MAZZA, Clemente (fl. 1475). Vita di San Zenobio. Florence: [Bartolommeo di Libri], 8th December 1487.
Chancery 4o (207 x 138 mm). Collation: a-e8 f6 (a1r dedication to Filippo Zenobio Girolami, a2r text, d4r preface to the second part addressed to the dedicatee, d4r Secondo trattato text, f2r Trattato tertio preface and text, f6v colophon). 46 leaves. Roman type 2:114 first state. 27-28 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (A few minor marginal repairs and stains.) Late-18th-century Italian blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers. Quarter-morocco box. Provenance: Antonino Burgassi (ownership inscription dated 1784) -- Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (gilt white-leather bookplate), sold at Evans 31 May 1824, lot 492, through Thorpe to -- Sir John Hayford Thorold, Syston Park (bookplates), sold at Sotheby's 2 December 1884, lot 1338, to -- F.H.G. Maitland (purchase inscription) -- Eric H.L. Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 60, to -- [Laurence Witten], inventory sold at Swann Galleries, 17 October 1985, lot 315 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 October 1985.
FIRST EDITION of Mazza's life and miracles of St Zenobio (335-424), Bishop of Florence. Parts 2 and 3 describe the translations of the saint's body and his miracles after death. Bound up at the end is a 17th-century Italian manuscript on paper (6 leaves) of a further continuation by the same author, containing an account of the foundation of the church of San Zenobio, another translation and more miracles (ink corrosion affecting text). HCR 10981; BMC VI, 648; IGI 6317; Goff M-417.
Chancery 4o (207 x 138 mm). Collation: a-e8 f6 (a1r dedication to Filippo Zenobio Girolami, a2r text, d4r preface to the second part addressed to the dedicatee, d4r Secondo trattato text, f2r Trattato tertio preface and text, f6v colophon). 46 leaves. Roman type 2:114 first state. 27-28 lines. Initial-spaces with guide-letters. (A few minor marginal repairs and stains.) Late-18th-century Italian blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers. Quarter-morocco box. Provenance: Antonino Burgassi (ownership inscription dated 1784) -- Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (gilt white-leather bookplate), sold at Evans 31 May 1824, lot 492, through Thorpe to -- Sir John Hayford Thorold, Syston Park (bookplates), sold at Sotheby's 2 December 1884, lot 1338, to -- F.H.G. Maitland (purchase inscription) -- Eric H.L. Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 60, to -- [Laurence Witten], inventory sold at Swann Galleries, 17 October 1985, lot 315 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 October 1985.
FIRST EDITION of Mazza's life and miracles of St Zenobio (335-424), Bishop of Florence. Parts 2 and 3 describe the translations of the saint's body and his miracles after death. Bound up at the end is a 17th-century Italian manuscript on paper (6 leaves) of a further continuation by the same author, containing an account of the foundation of the church of San Zenobio, another translation and more miracles (ink corrosion affecting text). HCR 10981; BMC VI, 648; IGI 6317; Goff M-417.