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BARTHOLOMAEUS de CHAIMIS (d. c.1496). Confessionale. Milan: Christopher Valdarfer, 29 September 1474.
Chancery 8° (147 x 109mm). Gothic type, first 3-line initial illuminated in gold, red and blue, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue. (Occasional light staining, old catalogue excerpt removed from verso of flyleaf.) 18th-century vellum over paper boards, title in ink on spine (hinges cracked, wormholes at spine, chipped at extremities). Provenance: some early annotations (slightly shaved) -- library shelf marks on spine and pastedown, stamp erased from a.1 -- Charlotte Price, Nov. 27, 1847 (ink inscription) -- Walter Goldwater (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. De Chaimis was a Papal legate under Sixtus IV and a Franciscan monk at the convent of S. Maria de Angelis near Milan. This, his only work, was the second book printed in Milan by Valdarfer, who had transferred there from Venice. It was reprinted 11 times in the incunable period, predominantly in Germany. H *2481; GW 6540; BMC VI, 725; Goff B-153.
Chancery 8° (147 x 109mm). Gothic type, first 3-line initial illuminated in gold, red and blue, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue. (Occasional light staining, old catalogue excerpt removed from verso of flyleaf.) 18th-century vellum over paper boards, title in ink on spine (hinges cracked, wormholes at spine, chipped at extremities). Provenance: some early annotations (slightly shaved) -- library shelf marks on spine and pastedown, stamp erased from a.1 -- Charlotte Price, Nov. 27, 1847 (ink inscription) -- Walter Goldwater (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. De Chaimis was a Papal legate under Sixtus IV and a Franciscan monk at the convent of S. Maria de Angelis near Milan. This, his only work, was the second book printed in Milan by Valdarfer, who had transferred there from Venice. It was reprinted 11 times in the incunable period, predominantly in Germany. H *2481; GW 6540; BMC VI, 725; Goff B-153.
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