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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459, Saint). Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. [Italy, not after 1472].
2o in half-sheets (290 x 203 mm). Collation: [12 2-510 612 712.1 8-910 108]. 93 leaves. 30 lines. Roman type 1:115. Capital spaces. 6-line initial B in blue on 2/1r, capital strokes in red on the first leaf and four initials N in the second quire. Contemporary manuscript signatures. Two pinholes visible in outer margins. (Some occasional light marginal soiling.) 19th-century gothic style blind-tooled quarter reverse calf over unbevelled wooden boards, some deckle edges preserved (some light wear along joints). Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 5 June 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
VERY RARE EDITION BY AN UNASSIGNED ITALIAN PRESS, exhibiting numerous anomalies. Insufficient inking, or perhaps battered type, has caused numerous printing irregularities which consequently have been corrected in manuscript, presumably in the printer's shop. The registering is imperfect, many lines are uneven and some pages have been too heavily inked, resulting in smudging. The chapter "De Ypocrisi" mistakenly was omitted from the text and is here printed at the end of the contents [2/2v] with a note regarding its correct placement. Evidence of words being left out, and inserted in manuscript (as on 7/1v), further indicate that the printer of this work was perhaps not well-practiced in the art.
Dating of the work is based partly on the copy in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich which was rubricated in 1472. The presence of the Cepolla manuscript in this copy suggests a date no earlier than 1471. As in the copy described in BMC, the present bears watermarks including a balance, a cardinal's hat, a lion with a sword, a pair of scissors and another animal which may represent a leopard. BMC suggests that these watermarks (and the presence of a Venetian illuminated initial in their copy) point to Venetian origin, although the evidence is insufficient to say that the press was located in Venice itself. BMC further notes that the edition now attributed to Adam de Ambergau, Venice, 1472 appears to derive from a different manuscript source. As the three editions prior to these were all printed in Cologne, it appears there was a separate manuscript tradition for the two Italian editions. RARE: only 14 copies of this edition, including the present, are recorded in ISTC. BMC XII, 82 (IB.36839; described as quarto); BSB-Ink. A-574 (described as quarto); GW 2084; H 1165; Goff A-793.
[Bound with:]
CEPOLLA, Bartholomaeus. Bartholomei Cepoli Veronensis Iuris utriusque doctoris equitis et oratoris Christoferi Mauri Incliti ducis Venetiarum ad Fridericum tertium Romanorum imperatorem In dieti Ratisponensis 1471. Contemporary manuscript copy of Cepolla's address before the Diet of Ratisbon urging the Emperor Frederick to join a crusade against the Turks. Cepolla, of Verona, was a Doctor of canon and civil law, knight and orator of Cristoforo Moro, Doge of Venice.
2o in half-sheets (290 x 203 mm). Collation: [12 2-510 612 712.1 8-910 108]. 93 leaves. 30 lines. Roman type 1:115. Capital spaces. 6-line initial B in blue on 2/1r, capital strokes in red on the first leaf and four initials N in the second quire. Contemporary manuscript signatures. Two pinholes visible in outer margins. (Some occasional light marginal soiling.) 19th-century gothic style blind-tooled quarter reverse calf over unbevelled wooden boards, some deckle edges preserved (some light wear along joints). Provenance: Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 5 June 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
VERY RARE EDITION BY AN UNASSIGNED ITALIAN PRESS, exhibiting numerous anomalies. Insufficient inking, or perhaps battered type, has caused numerous printing irregularities which consequently have been corrected in manuscript, presumably in the printer's shop. The registering is imperfect, many lines are uneven and some pages have been too heavily inked, resulting in smudging. The chapter "De Ypocrisi" mistakenly was omitted from the text and is here printed at the end of the contents [2/2v] with a note regarding its correct placement. Evidence of words being left out, and inserted in manuscript (as on 7/1v), further indicate that the printer of this work was perhaps not well-practiced in the art.
Dating of the work is based partly on the copy in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich which was rubricated in 1472. The presence of the Cepolla manuscript in this copy suggests a date no earlier than 1471. As in the copy described in BMC, the present bears watermarks including a balance, a cardinal's hat, a lion with a sword, a pair of scissors and another animal which may represent a leopard. BMC suggests that these watermarks (and the presence of a Venetian illuminated initial in their copy) point to Venetian origin, although the evidence is insufficient to say that the press was located in Venice itself. BMC further notes that the edition now attributed to Adam de Ambergau, Venice, 1472 appears to derive from a different manuscript source. As the three editions prior to these were all printed in Cologne, it appears there was a separate manuscript tradition for the two Italian editions. RARE: only 14 copies of this edition, including the present, are recorded in ISTC. BMC XII, 82 (IB.36839; described as quarto); BSB-Ink. A-574 (described as quarto); GW 2084; H 1165; Goff A-793.
[Bound with:]
CEPOLLA, Bartholomaeus. Bartholomei Cepoli Veronensis Iuris utriusque doctoris equitis et oratoris Christoferi Mauri Incliti ducis Venetiarum ad Fridericum tertium Romanorum imperatorem In dieti Ratisponensis 1471. Contemporary manuscript copy of Cepolla's address before the Diet of Ratisbon urging the Emperor Frederick to join a crusade against the Turks. Cepolla, of Verona, was a Doctor of canon and civil law, knight and orator of Cristoforo Moro, Doge of Venice.