Bod-Inc: B-446
Bonaventura
Meditationes vitae Christi [Italian] Le deuote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore.
Analysis of Content
a2r Bonaventura [pseudo-; Johannes de Caulibus(?)]: Meditationes vitae Christi [Italian]. ‘Le deuote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore'. Incipit: ‘[A]propinquando se il termine . . .'; explicit: ‘ . . . ritorno al sanctissimo corpo nel sepulchro.’
e8r [Sonnet.] Incipit: ‘Se alcuna pieta, o lector, ti moui'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Hieronymus de Sanctis and Cornelio, 1487. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–e8.
Illustrations: 11 full-page woodcuts; woodcut border on a2r; woodcut initials; the design of the woodcuts are ascribed to Cristoforo Cortese; see C. Huter, ‘Cristoforo Cortese in the Bodleian Library', Apollo (Jan. 1980), 10-17, at 16 with references to earlier literature.
References
ISTC: ib00922000
GW: GW 4795;
Hain: R 843;
Goff: Goff B‑922;
BMC: BMC V 461;
Proctor: Pr 5180;
Others: Essling 404; Sander 1172; Sheppard 4277.
LCN: 13911960
Copies
Copy number: B-446(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian(?) quarter green morocco; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 217 × 160 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 208 × 149 mm.
A few early marginal notes.
The first two woodcuts are partly coloured and decorated with gold.
Provenance: Giuseppe Storck (1766-1836); inscription on a1r: ‘G. Storck a Milano 1802'. Sheppard records that this item was purchased in 1842, but it has not been identified in Books Purchased.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Mason FF 461.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.32.
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