![BLESSED LUCY OF NARNI – [ERCOLE I, Duke of Ferrara (1431-1505) and Niccolò Maria d’ ESTE (c.1450-1507)]. Wunderperliche gschihten von gaystlichen weybßpersonen. [Nuremberg: Hieronymus Höltzel, 1501].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0155_000(blessed_lucy_of_narni_ercole_i_duke_of_ferrara_and_niccolo_maria_d_est100519).jpg?w=1)
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BLESSED LUCY OF NARNI – [ERCOLE I, Duke of Ferrara (1431-1505) and Niccolò Maria d’ ESTE (c.1450-1507)]. Wunderperliche gschihten von gaystlichen weybßpersonen. [Nuremberg: Hieronymus Höltzel, 1501].
First German edition of this supernatural account based on a compilation of documents written in 1500 and 1501 about the Dominican mystic Lucia Brocadelli de Narnia (1476-1544) who was famed as a stigmatic. Only 2 other copies of this edition in institutions, both in Germany. No previous sale recorded in ABPC/RBH. USTC 707405; VD16 E-3981
Quarto (201 x 142mm). 8 leaves, one full-page woodcut illustration on title verso (a couple of wormholes touching a few letters and deftly repaired on the title page, a few gutters reinforced, edges browned). 19th-century boards (upper joint paper split). Provenance: Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (initials in pencil, bought in 1965).
First German edition of this supernatural account based on a compilation of documents written in 1500 and 1501 about the Dominican mystic Lucia Brocadelli de Narnia (1476-1544) who was famed as a stigmatic. Only 2 other copies of this edition in institutions, both in Germany. No previous sale recorded in ABPC/RBH. USTC 707405; VD16 E-3981
Quarto (201 x 142mm). 8 leaves, one full-page woodcut illustration on title verso (a couple of wormholes touching a few letters and deftly repaired on the title page, a few gutters reinforced, edges browned). 19th-century boards (upper joint paper split). Provenance: Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (initials in pencil, bought in 1965).
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