Declaratione del mysterio della croce qui descripta
Details
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
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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