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Incomi[n]ciano le vite de sancti padri

Title
Incomi[n]ciano le vite de sancti padri / per diuersi eloquentissimi doctori vulgarizate.
Publication
In Venetia : Con ogni diligentia imprese per maestro Nicolao Girardengo: & il suo compagno, ne gli anni del signore corrente, Mcccclxxviiii [1479]

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Additional Authors
  • Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
  • Moschus, John, approximately 550-619.
  • Cavalca, Domenico, -1342
  • Belcari, Feo, 1410-1484
  • Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
  • Girardenghi, Nicola, active 1479-1512
Description
[424] pages; 30 cm (fol.)
Summary
Traditionally attributed to Saint Jerome, but a compilation from various sources, mainly Greek, of legendary biographies and other material about early Christian saints, particularly those known as the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers.
Alternative Title
  • Vite de sancti padri
  • Vite dei santi padri
  • Prato spirituale de sancti padre.
Subject
  • Fathers of the church > Biography > Early works to 1800
  • Christian saints > Biography > Early works to 1800
  • Christian women saints > Biography > Early works to 1800
  • Hermits > Biography > Early works to 1800
  • Desert Fathers > Biography > Early works to 1800
  • Penitents > Biography > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
Incunabula – Italy – Venice.
Note
  • Title from beginning of text, page [3].
  • Imprint from colophon, page [408]; place of printing transposed from position after "& il suo compagno." Following date in colophon: "Regnante missere Joanne Mozenico principe de Vinetia."
  • Translation from Latin by Domenico Calvalca.
  • Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ &⁸ [con]¹⁰ [rum]⁸. Leaves a1 and [rum]7,8 blank.
  • Printed in 2 columns. Gothic type; 51 lines; initial spaces, mostly of 3 lines, some with guide letters. Type: 75; see Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke (TW), ma06432.
  • Includes the Pratum spirituale of John Moschus, in the Italian translation of Feo Belcare after the translation from the original Greek into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. Begins (page [313]): "Incomincia il Prato spirituale de sa[n]cti padre co[m]posto da sancto Gioa[n]i Euerato: e ma[n]dato al suo i[n] Christo Sophroni o sophista."
Indexed In (note)
  • Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries
  • Incunabula short title catalogue (ISTC)
  • Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW)
  • Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum
  • Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum
  • Cioni, A. Bibliografia de Le vite dei santi Padri volgarizzate da fra Domenico Cavalca
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available online (Württembergische Landesbibliothek copy) via Digitale Sammlungen der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek.
Provenance (note)
  • Gerald S. Davies (bookseller's annotation on front flyleaf: "Vendita di Sotheby (libreria del conte di Lisburne), Londra, 20-22 giugno, 1927"; see Sotheby's sale catalog, June 20-22, 1927, including properties of the Earl of Lisburne and several others; the present item is lot 464, from the property of Gerald S. Davies). Another bookseller's annotation in English.
Binding (note)
  • Modern light brown morocco, gilt; art nouveau-style decorations with bird motif on front cover; with initials G.D. and date 1893.
Call Number
*KB 1479 17-4
OCLC
973959845
Title
Incomi[n]ciano le vite de sancti padri / per diuersi eloquentissimi doctori vulgarizate.
Publisher
In Venetia : Con ogni diligentia imprese per maestro Nicolao Girardengo: & il suo compagno, ne gli anni del signore corrente, Mcccclxxviiii [1479]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry H-227
Incunabula short title catalogue (ISTC), ih00227000 http://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00227000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW), M50947
Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 8619
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 12, page 18 (IB.20772)
Cioni, A. Bibliografia de Le vite dei santi Padri volgarizzate da fra Domenico Cavalca, page 22 (class B (testo completo), no. 5)
Additional Formats
Also available online (Württembergische Landesbibliothek copy) via Digitale Sammlungen der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek.
Binding
Modern light brown morocco, gilt; art nouveau-style decorations with bird motif on front cover; with initials G.D. and date 1893. NN
Provenance
Gerald S. Davies (bookseller's annotation on front flyleaf: "Vendita di Sotheby (libreria del conte di Lisburne), Londra, 20-22 giugno, 1927"; see Sotheby's sale catalog, June 20-22, 1927, including properties of the Earl of Lisburne and several others; the present item is lot 464, from the property of Gerald S. Davies). Another bookseller's annotation in English. NN
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Place of Publication
Italy Venice.
Added Author
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420, attributed name.
Container of (expression): Moschus, John, approximately 550-619. Pratum spirituale. Italian.
Cavalca, Domenico, -1342, translator.
Belcari, Feo, 1410-1484, translator.
Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439, translator.
Girardenghi, Nicola, active 1479-1512, printer.
Davies, Gerald S. (Gerald Stanley), 1845-1927. former owner.
Added Title
Prato spirituale de sancti padre.
Research Call Number
*KB 1479 17-4
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