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SAVONAROLA, Girolamo (1452-98). Sermone dell'orazione. -Regola del vostro vivere. Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 20 October 1492.
Chancery 4° (190 x 126mm). Collation: a8 b6 (a1 title with woodcut of the Agony in the Garden, verso blank, a2r Sermone, b6r Regola, b6v colophon). 14 leaves. 36 lines. Type: 5:86R. 20th-century brown morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Provenance: Gordon H. Craine (bookplate; purchased from Quaritch in 1963; by descent).
FIRST EDITION, and one of the earliest Savonarola works to appear in print. Savonarola exhorts his listeners to pray as the most efficacious means of preserving in man two of the most important virtues: humility and charity, the first is the foundation of spiritual life, and the second is the perfection or consummation of the spirit. The colophon has been altered to 1491 by the erasure of the final roman numeral "I". HC(Add) 14405; BMC VI, 641 (IA. 27201); CIBN S-136; Audin 95; Giovannozzi 218; Sander 6836; Goff S-265.
Chancery 4° (190 x 126mm). Collation: a
FIRST EDITION, and one of the earliest Savonarola works to appear in print. Savonarola exhorts his listeners to pray as the most efficacious means of preserving in man two of the most important virtues: humility and charity, the first is the foundation of spiritual life, and the second is the perfection or consummation of the spirit. The colophon has been altered to 1491 by the erasure of the final roman numeral "I". HC(Add) 14405; BMC VI, 641 (IA. 27201); CIBN S-136; Audin 95; Giovannozzi 218; Sander 6836; Goff S-265.
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