Details

Subject(s)

• Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Virtue—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Incunabula—Italy—Venice—1493 [Browse]

Illustrator

• Pico Master, active 15th century [Browse]

Printer

• Capcasa, Matteo [Browse]

Former owner

• Domizlaff, Helmuth, 1902-1983 [Browse]
• Schäfer, Otto [Browse]
• Herzogliche Bibliothek (Gotha, Germany) [Browse]
• Otto-Schäfer-Stiftung [Browse]
• Librairie Thomas-Scheler [Browse]

Notes

• Imprint from colophon.
• With 38 woodcut illustrations by the "Pico Master."
• Two sizes of Roman type, double-column, 39 lines per page, open floriated five-line woodcut initials, thirty-five column-width unshaded historiated woodcuts (47 x 54 mm.); woodcut Annunciation (69 x 48 mm.) and Nativity (67 x 49 mm.) on the final verso, large title woodcut of a monk gathering flowers in a walled garden with animals at his feet (139 x 102 mm.); above the block a semi-cirlce woodcut of God the Father with a book in his right hand, labeled "Dio Padre."

Binding note

Ex copy: Bound in early 19th century marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine and gilt-lettered red morocco label; edges sprinkled red and blue.

Provenance

Ex copy: Provenance: Gotha (Germany), Ducal Library (effaced 18th-century stamp); Helmut Domizlaff (1903-1983), Munich rare book dealer; Otto-Schäfer Collection (Schweinfurt, Germany); sold ca. 2010 to Librairie Thomas-Scheler (cat. Sept. 2010), no. 2; Bruce McKittrick since 2015.

References

• ISTC if00185150
• GW 9929
• Sander, M. Le livre à figure italien (1942) no. 2729

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

Questa sie una utilissima operetta acadauno fidel christiano chiamata Fio de virtù

OCLC

975278139

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