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Title

Ioannis Mariae Velmatij sacrae theologiae professoris, & poetae scientissimi, Veteris & Noui Testame[n]ti opus singulare, ac planè diuinum / & ab ipso authore accuratissime recognitum, & scholijs illustratum, & diligentissime excusum.

Author

Velmatius, Joannes Maria

Publication

Venetijs : [Aurelio Pincio], 1538.

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Details

Description

[10], 11-203, [1] leaves : ill.; 25 cm. (4to)

Uniform Title

Veteris et Novi Testamenti opus singulare, ac planè divinum

Alternative Title

• Veteris et Novi Testamenti opus singulare, ac planè divinum
• Veteris & Noui Testame[n]ti opus singulare, ac planè diuinum
• Veteris & Novi Testamenti opus singulare, ac planè divinum
• Ueteris & noui testameti opus singulare, ac planè Diuinum
• Veteris et Noui Testamenti opus singulare, ac planè diuinum
• Opus singulare Veteris et Novi Testamenti
• Joannis Mariae Velmatii sacrae theologiae professoris, & poetae scientissimi, Veteris & Novi Testamenti opus singulare, ac planè divinum
• Ioannis Mariae Velmatii Sacrae Theologiae professoris, & Poetae scientissimi, ueteris & noui testameti opus singulare, ac planè Diuinum
• Ioannis Mariae Velmatij sacrae theologiae professoris, et poetae scientissimi, Veteris et Noui Testamenti opus singulare, ac planè diuinum
• Sacrae Theologiae professoris, & Poetae scientissimi, ueteris & noui testameti opus singulare
• Ioannis Mariae Velmatij Bagnacaballi christeidos ... liber primus[-decimus]
• Christeidos liber primus-decimus
• Cristeidos liber primus-decimus

Subjects

• Woodcuts > Italy > 16th century
• Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles > Poetry
• Bible > History of Biblical events > Poetry
• Bible > History of Biblical events > Art

Genre/Form

Woodcuts – Italy – 16th century.

Note

• Caption title: Ioannis Mariae Velmatij Bagnacaballi Christeidos ... liber primus[-decimus]. The title Christeidos (sometimes spelled Cristeidos) liber ... also appears at end of each book.
• Name of printer from Rhodes.
• Signatures: a-z⁸ A-B⁸ C⁴.
• Leaves [50-51] numbered 51, 50.
• Text of the poem in italic type; side notes in roman.
• Illustrations: 12 prints : woodcut ; full-page (1) and image 8 x 11 cm. (9), 79 x 55 mm. or 10 x 7 cm. Depict mostly Biblical subjects, including the drunkenness of Noah. Full-page cut depicts the author presenting his work to Cardinal Giovanni Domenico Cuppi in the company of 4 bishops; 9 smaller cuts by the same hand. -- Woodcut border on t.p., composed of 9 different Biblical scenes. "Reduced copy of the folio border on Luc'Antonio Giunta's Venice 1532 edition of Antonio Brucioli's translation of the Bible"--Mortimer.
• Floriated, historiated and grotesque initials. Those on leaves 151v, 191v, 181v and 150r are from "a well-known alphabet in the possession of Aurelio Pincio ... The capital D on fol. 169r ... is left over from the fifteenth century, when it had been used in several Venetian incunabula"--Rhodes.
• Contains also minor Latin poems, and Actus Apostolorum (liber I-V) (leaves 151v-203r).
• Errata: leaves 203v-[204]r. Library of Congress, Sander, Mortimer and Rhodes describe leaf [204] (C4) as blank.

Indexed In (note)

• Brunet
• Grässe
• BM STC Italian 1465-1600
• Sander
• Mortimer, R. Ital. 16th cent.
• Rhodes, D.E. Silent printers

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ital. 1538 04-36

LCCN

30002619

OCLC

NYPG04-B158

Author

Velmatius, Joannes Maria.

Title

Ioannis Mariae Velmatij sacrae theologiae professoris, & poetae scientissimi, Veteris & Noui Testame[n]ti opus singulare, ac planè diuinum / & ab ipso authore accuratissime recognitum, & scholijs illustratum, & diligentissime excusum.

Imprint

Venetijs : [Aurelio Pincio], 1538.

Indexed In:

Brunet, V, col. 1117; suppl. II, col. 856

Grässe, VI/2, p. 275

BM STC Italian 1465-1600, p. 714, 78.d.27

Sander 7506

Mortimer, R. Ital. 16th cent., 522

Rhodes, D.E. Silent printers, V2

Local Note

On leaf [6]v, "desertum" is corrected in ms. to "disertum," as in the Harvard copy; Mortimer states that the BM copy has the word printed correctly. Three other ms. corrections in a contemporary hand on leaf 5v.

Spencer Coll. copy is uncut and unopened.

Binding: 19th century vellum, with dark red spine label, gilt.

Added Author

Velmatius, Joannes Maria. Actus Apostolorum. 1538.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ital. 1538 04-36