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BAPTISTA MANTUANUS (1447-1516). Parthenice prima, sive Mariana. -Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim acerrimam. Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 10 February 1492. Chancery 4° (209 x 140mm). Gothic types. Opening 6-line initial in red and blue with penwork decoration and extensions, other initials in red or blue, red capital strokes. (Title in facsimile, bottom margin of final leaf replaced.) Early 20th-century brown morocco, gilt lettering on spine. Provenance: some contemporary marginal annotations -- George Dunn, Woolley Hall (1865-1912, bookplate) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 18).
Third edition of an important work, printed by the FIRST PRINTER in Deventer. It was the first in a series of seven hagiographic epic poems in which the Italian Carmelite poet celebrated the lives of Mary, Catherine of Alexandria and other Roman Catholic saints. Not in BSB. HC 2635; GW 3278; BMC IX 55; IDL 650; CIBN B-44; Goff B-59.
Third edition of an important work, printed by the FIRST PRINTER in Deventer. It was the first in a series of seven hagiographic epic poems in which the Italian Carmelite poet celebrated the lives of Mary, Catherine of Alexandria and other Roman Catholic saints. Not in BSB. HC 2635; GW 3278; BMC IX 55; IDL 650; CIBN B-44; Goff B-59.