Bod-Inc: C-119
Catharina Senensis
Epistole (XXXI) [Italian].
Analysis of Content
a2r Catharina Senensis: Epistole XXXI. Catharina Senensis, Le Lettere, ed. Piero Misciatelli and Niccolò Tommaseo (Siena, 1913-21); Epistolario, ed. Eugenio Dupré Theseider, vol. 1, Fonti per la storia d'Italia, 82 (Rome, 1940); Epistolario, ed. Piero Misciatelli, 6 vols (Florence, 1947). On this edition see Theseider (1940), pp. lxiii–lxv, and The Letters of St Catherine of Siena, trans. Suzanne Noffke, vol. 1 (Binghamton, NY, 1988), 14-15.
f6v ‘El numero e l'ordine de quelle epistole'.
f7v [Hexameter.] Incipit: ‘Facto fine pia laudetur virgo Maria'.
f7v [Colophon with note on the editor, a Dominican, and on other letters written by Catharina.]
Imprint
Imprint: Bologna: Johannes Jacobus de Fontanesis, Regiensis, 18 Apr. 1492. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–f8.
Illustrations: One woodcut.
References
ISTC: ic00280000
GW: GW 6221;
Hain: [Not H]CR 4687; C 1502 (var.);
Goff: Goff C‑280;
BMC: BMC VI 838;
Proctor: Pr 6620;
Others: Sander 1820; Sheppard 5377.
LCN: 14837379
Copies
Copy number: C-119(1)
Leaf a1 reversed by the binder. On a1v a full-page woodcut (seee GW Anm.), with type-set inscription (type 92 G): ‘Sancta Catherina Da Siena'; see Sander no. 468.
Binding: Nineteenth-century pasteboards.
Size: 212 × 150 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 203 × 140 mm.
Provenance: Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone, Conte Libri Carrucci della Sommaia (1803-1869); purchased at his sale (1 Aug. 1859), lot 559, for £2. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1859), 28.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.34.
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