Bod-Inc: F-058
Fiore di Virtu [Italian]
Analysis of Content
a1v Fiore di virtù. [With rhymed explicit.] Incipit: ‘[P]er recreare alquanto . . .’ See F‑057.
d4r [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Delle uirtu io son chiamato il fiore'; 6 lines of verse, adapted from the 1488 edition.
d4r ‘Capituli ouer rubriche'. [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 29 Apr. 1500. 8°.
Remarks: A reprint of GW 9936 (cf. GW).
Collation
Collation: a–c8 d4.
Illustrations: 36 woodcuts; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: if00186300
GW: GW 9937;
Hain: R 7116;
Proctor: Pr 5251;
Others: Sander 2743; Sheppard 4327-8.
LCN: 14387494
Copies
Copy number: F-058(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century calf with gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 207 × 155 × 15 mm.
Size of leaf: 201 × 148 mm.
Woodcuts and initials partly coloured, possibly in a modern hand; yellow capital strokes.
Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 97.
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