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Bod-Inc: M-231

Mirabilia Romae

(Mirabilia Romae vel potius) Historia et descriptio urbis Romae [Italian] In questa operetta si contiene come Romulo e Remo nacquono, et al.

 

Analysis of Content

[a2r] [Summary of contents.] Incipit: ‘[I]n questa opereta si contiene come Romulo e Remo nacquono . . .’ Explicit: per tutto lanno

[a3r] [(Mirabilia Romae vel potius) Historia et descriptio urbis Romae.] Incipit: ‘[R]oma cita santa capo del mondo edificata fu dopo la distructione di Troia . . .’ Explicit: Constantinopoli denomino

c4r Indulgentiae septem ecclesiarum principalium urbis Romae. ‘Indulgentie dele vii chiesie principale di Roma'. Incipit: ‘Santo Siluestro papa scriue nella cronica sua che a Roma erano . . .’ Explicit: plenaria di tutti li peccati

e1r [Indulgences of other churches.] ‘De le indulgentie e reliquie de laltre chiesie di Roma'. Incipit: ‘[S]anta Maria in Transteuero nel luoco doue e hora questa venerabile . . .’ Explicit: fal summo pontifice

h2v ‘Satione(!)'. Incipit: ‘Il giorno dele cenere o vero primo di di quatragesima a santa Sabina . . .’ The stationes are listed according to the liturgical year.

Imprint

Imprint: [Rome: Johann Besicken and Martinus de Amsterdam, c.1500]. 8°.

Remarks: As assigned and dated by Sheppard; Pr assigns to [Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck]; Sheppard formerly dated [c.1495].

Collation

Collation: [a] b–g8 h4.

Types: Type: 87 GA.

Leaves: 60 leaves, the first blank.

Line number: 23 lines ([a5r]).

Type area: Type area: 98 ×67 mm ([a5r]).

Illustrations: Woodcut initial R (1a) on [a3r], S (1b) on e1r. Lombards. Woodcuts: [a1], blank; [a2r], ‘In questa opereta si contiene', etc.; [a2v], woodcut, Rhea Silvia; [a3r], woodcut, arms, text, ‘Roma cita santa', etc.; c3r, ‘Indulgentie dele. vij. chiesie principali di Roma'; c4v, woodcut, St John; c5r, text, ‘Santo Siluestro papa scriue', etc.; c8r, woodcut, St Peter; c8v, text, ‘La seconda chiesia', etc.; d2v, woodcut, St Paul; d3r, text, ‘La tertio chiesa', etc.; d4r, woodcut, Virgin and Child; d4v, text, ‘La quarta chiesa', etc.; d5v, woodcut, St Lawrence; d6r, text, ‘La quinta chiesa', etc.; d6v, woodcut, St Sebastian; d7r, text, ‘La sexta chiesa', etc.; d8r, woodcut, Crucifixion; d8v, text, ‘La septima chiesa', etc.; e1r, ‘Dele Indulgentie et reliquie de laltre chiesie di Roma'; h2v, ‘Satione(!) della quatragesima'. h4v. ‘Finis'.

Remarks: Leaf [a2r]: ‘IN queſta opereta ſi cōtiene come Ro | mulo e Remo nacquono . . . |'; (l. 6) ‘ . . . Et etiam deglimperatori Romani in | che modo imperarono in cominciādo dal pri | mo cioe Julio cesare in sino al tempo de Cō= | stantino . . .'; [a3r]. [arms of the Emperor, Pope Alexander VI, and the city of Rome] ‘ROma cita ſanta: capo | del mondo . . .'; h4v, l. 22: ‘Finis'.

References

ISTC: im00613700

Proctor: Pr 3593;

Others: Miedema 224, no. i9; not in Pollak, Le guide di Roma; Rossetti, Rome: I: The Guide Books, 9 no. G‑089; Sheppard 3172-3. Microfiche: Unit 6: Image of the World, Travellers' Tales.

LCN: 14027794

Copies

Copy number: M-231(1)

Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco; marbled pastedowns.

Size: 147 × 109 × 14 mm.

Size of leaf: 141 × 101 mm.

Bibliographical note in Italian in a nineteenth-century hand attached to the recto of one of the front endleaves.

Provenance: Uberto [ ] (sixteenth/seventeenth century); washed inscription in the lower margin of [a2r]: ‘Uberto nobili cham[ ] fili'. Alessandro, Count Mortara (†1855). Purchased in 1852 from Count Mortara; not found in Alessandro Mortara, Biblioteca Italica, 1852.

SHELFMARK: Mortara 192.


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