Details

Subject(s)

• Spiritual life—Catholic Church [Browse]

Printer

• Miscomini, Antonio, active 1476-1494 [Browse]

Former owner

• Ginori Conti, Piero, principe di Trevignano, 1865-1939 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Witten, Laurence C. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Annotations . [Browse]

Notes

• Title from caption on leaf [1].
• At head of title: Iesus. Maria.
• Colophon: Conpiuta e la predecta opera la quale si chiama il libro della diciplina [sic] degli spirituali.
• Imprint from Goff and GW, cited below.
• Caption on leaf [1] in red; initial spaces, some with printed guides, unfilled.
• Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴ (M4 recto and verso blank).
• Signature I signed: I, ii. iii, iiii.

Binding note

Ex copy: Late 18-century brown speckled wrappers over flexible paper boards, uncut.

Provenance

• ExI copy: Annotated by a contemporary reader in the outer and lower margins of nearly every page in Latin and Italian; the same reader underlined passages, added manicula and corrected orthography throughout.
• ExI copy: Bookplate of Piero Ginori-Conti (1865-1939); later in the stocks of English bookseller J. Irving Davis, Esq. (1889-1967) and Connecticut dealer Laurence Witten (d. 1995, a copy of his note laid in).

References

• Goff, C-328
• GW, no. 6396
• Pellechet, no. 3452
• BM 15th cent., VI, p. 645

Other title(s)

• Prologo sopra el devotissimo et utile libro che si chiama la disciplina degli spirituali
• Libro della disciplina degli spirituali

OCLC

37376517

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