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BIBLE, in Italian. Pistole, lezioni, et vangeli, che si leggono in tutto l'anno, alla messa secondo la consuetudine della Sagrosanta Romana Chiesa. Translated by Francesco de' Cattani da Diacceto. Florence: Giunta, 1578.
2o (306 x 204 mm). 146 woodcuts, including thirty-four repetitions, type ornament head-pieces, architectural, grotesque and dolphin tail-pieces, historiated initials. (Title lacking and supplied in manuscript, marginal repair on A1 with several letters and outer edge of border of woodcut in facsimile, a few marginal repairs on last leaf, some pale browning.) 20th-century blue morocco, edges gilt, by Godillot (upper corners bumped). Provenance: Walter Ashburner (inkstamp on title, at end of table and on final leaf); acquired from Alan Thomas, 1961.
Second edition of Francesco de' Cattani da Diacceto's translation. Most of the blocks are fifteenth-century, from the 1495 Florentine edition printed by Lorenzo de' Morgiani and Joannes Petri for Piero Pacini. Seven blocks from the Passion appear in Antinio Mascomini's Florence editions of the pseudo-Bonaventura Meditazioni sopra la passione, of which at least one is earlier than 1495. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copies have sold in at least the last 35 years. Mortimer Italian 63.
2o (306 x 204 mm). 146 woodcuts, including thirty-four repetitions, type ornament head-pieces, architectural, grotesque and dolphin tail-pieces, historiated initials. (Title lacking and supplied in manuscript, marginal repair on A1 with several letters and outer edge of border of woodcut in facsimile, a few marginal repairs on last leaf, some pale browning.) 20th-century blue morocco, edges gilt, by Godillot (upper corners bumped). Provenance: Walter Ashburner (inkstamp on title, at end of table and on final leaf); acquired from Alan Thomas, 1961.
Second edition of Francesco de' Cattani da Diacceto's translation. Most of the blocks are fifteenth-century, from the 1495 Florentine edition printed by Lorenzo de' Morgiani and Joannes Petri for Piero Pacini. Seven blocks from the Passion appear in Antinio Mascomini's Florence editions of the pseudo-Bonaventura Meditazioni sopra la passione, of which at least one is earlier than 1495. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copies have sold in at least the last 35 years. Mortimer Italian 63.