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Declaratione del mysterio della croce qui descripta

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Type of record: Book

Title: Declaratione del mysterio della croce qui descripta

Other titles: Dichiarazione del mistero della croce qui descritta; Dichiarazione del mistero della Croce

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/DEC

Creator(s): Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)

Additional creator(s): Libri, Bartolommeo di (1482-1511) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Jesus Christ; Libri, Bartolommeo di; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: Bartolommeo di Libri

Publication city: [Florence]

Date(s): [about 1498]

Language: Italian

Size and medium: [4] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43480

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007743519705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a⁴.


Imprint from ISTC.


Also recorded as [after 1497].


Entered in N.U.C. pre-1956 imprints under: Savonarola, G: Dichiarazione del mistero della Croce.


Title from caption at incipit on a1r.


Printed with 34 long lines to a full page.


Ornamental woodcut initials.


Two woodcut representations of the Cross on a2r and a2v.


Indexed in: ISTC no. is00227000.


Indexed in: Hain 14347; Copinger 1937=5276; Proctor 6270; BMC VI 661; Goff S-227.

Features

All four leaves are foxed.


Bindings


Eighteenth-century binding of full limp vellum over pasteboard. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring a combination of the spot and curl patterns in red, green, blue and white. Size: 199 x 138mm. Leaf size: 193 x 134mm.

Provenance

In pencil manuscript on the recto of the back free endpaper: Perfect. Bernard Quaritch Ltd. F.S. Ferguson.


Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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