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BAPTISTA [Spagnuoli] Mantuanus (1448-1516). In funere Ferrandi regis oratio. Brescia: Bernardinus de Mistinus, 8th December 1496.
Chancery 4o (201 x 143 mm). Collation: a6. 6 leaves. 28 lines. Roman type 1:102. Printed Lombard initial C on a1r. (Some pale spotting and soiling, small marginal repair on a6.) 19th-century English blue half morocco, marbled boards, padded with blank leaves at end. Provenance: partially removed bookplate on front pastedown; 19th-century notes on front flyleaf; Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943); donated to SMS November 1943.
FIRST AND ONLY INCUNABLE EDITION of Baptista Mantuanus's funeral oration in honor of Ferdinand II, King of Naples. Baptista was a well-known poet, philosopher, theologian and General of the Carmelite order. Bernardinus de Mistinis worked at Brescia and Cremona in partnership with Caesar Parmensis in 1492-1493 before settling in Brescia in 1494. He continued to work on his own, as well as for the powerful Britannici brothers, who dominated early Brescian printing, until the end of the century. Britannicus provided the text type for this edition. BMC VII, 991 (IA.31252); GW 3275; HCR 2415; Harvard/Walsh S-3435A; Pr 7038; Goff B-56.
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FIRST AND ONLY INCUNABLE EDITION of Baptista Mantuanus's funeral oration in honor of Ferdinand II, King of Naples. Baptista was a well-known poet, philosopher, theologian and General of the Carmelite order. Bernardinus de Mistinis worked at Brescia and Cremona in partnership with Caesar Parmensis in 1492-1493 before settling in Brescia in 1494. He continued to work on his own, as well as for the powerful Britannici brothers, who dominated early Brescian printing, until the end of the century. Britannicus provided the text type for this edition. BMC VII, 991 (IA.31252); GW 3275; HCR 2415; Harvard/Walsh S-3435A; Pr 7038; Goff B-56.
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