Bod-Inc: T-282
Turrecremata, Johannes de
Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae.
Analysis of Content
[a1v] Turrecremata, Johannes de: Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae. ‘Meditationes . . . posite et depicte de ipsius mandato in ecclesie ambitu sancte Merie de Minerua Rome'. Incipit: ‘[O] Admiranda et laudanda tue dispensationis gratia . . .’ Explicit: habere recommissos Without the last chapter. See T‑280; Turrecremata, Meditationes, ed. Zirnbauer, 40 no. 3; Donati, ‘Escorso sulle Meditationes', 30-1; Röll, ‘Beobachtungen zu den Holzschnitten der “Meditationes” ’, 50.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Ulrich Han, 9 Dec. 1478. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a b10 c10+1].
Types: Type: 125 G.
Leaves: 31 leaves, the last blank.
Line number: 37 lines of text ([a9r]).
Type area: Type area: 229 ×171 mm ([a9r]).
Illustrations: 33 woodcuts.
Remarks: Capital spaces.
References
ISTC: it00538000
Hain: H *15725;
Goff: Goff T‑538;
Proctor: Pr 3377;
Others: BSB‑Ink T‑562; Sander 7405; Sheppard 2690.
LCN: 14800813
Copies
Copy number: T-282(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [c11].
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian half green morocco; bound for Boutourlin; green-edged leaves, pink pastedowns; pink silk bookmark.
Size: 275 × 203 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 269 × 200 mm.
Pasted to the front endleaf are three letters regarding the presence of the woodcut of St Dominic in this edition: (1) from Emil Hirsch (bookseller, Munich), dated 8 Apr. 1931; (2) from A. Lardanchet (bookseller, Lyons), dated 5 Oct. 1957; (3) David Rogers' reply to Lardanchet, dated 11 Oct. 1957.
Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 226, see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £4. 0. 0: see sale catalogue (1839), lot 321, and Books Purchased (1840), 31.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 3.6.
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