[Pungi lingua].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavalca, Domenico, -1342.

Contributor:

Laurentii, Nicolaus, active 1475-1486, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Speech--Moral and ethical aspects--Early works to 1800.

Speech.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Italy -- Florence -- 1476.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Cennino di Nicholo (former owner) (inscription)

Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy) (inscription)

Other Title:

Incipit of text: In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti amen. Incomincia ilbellissimo et utile tractato contra ilpeccato dellalingua Prologo sopra decta opera compilata et facta perfratre domenico chaualcha dauico pisano frate predicatore

Incomincia ilbellissimo et utile tractato contra ilpeccato dellalingua Prologo sopra decta opera compilata et facta perfratre domenico chaualcha dauico pisano frate predicatore

Fingerprint:

houo ioro noia diuu (C) 1476 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Florence : Nicolaus Laurentii, ca. 1476-1477]

Notes:

Title from Goff.

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf q3v, which reads: FINIT PERNICHOLAVM FLORENTIE. DEO GRATIAS AMEN.

Imprint date from ISTC. "This ... book [is] shown by the state of the type to be earlier than [Laurentii's] Bettini of September, 1477 and ... therefore also doubtless earlier than the Alphonsus de Toleto completed only six weeks before the Bettini."--BM 15th cent.

Median quarto. Leaf a2v: 31 lines; area of text: 175 x 110 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-i⁸ l-p⁸ q⁴ (q4 blank).

Leaves a1-a4 and b1 are unsigned.

Leaf q3v, line 8 reads: "in eterno cosancti angieli lui lodare et ringratiare:". A variant reads: "ineterno cosancti angieli lui lodrre et ringratiare:". Cf. Walsh.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: leaf q3v, line 8 reads: "ineterno cosancti angieli lui lodrre et ringratiare:".

Leaf size: 265 x 164 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red and blue ms. for all initial spaces except that on leaf c2v.

Penn Libraries copy: signature marks supplied in ms. in brown ink on leaves a1-a3; leaves a3-q3 each has ms. foliation ("2"-"116") in brown ink in head outer corner; a few early ms. marginal marks in brown ink in text.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Francis Campbell Macauley.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible round stamp ("[...] BIBLIOTH[...]" around fleur-de-lis) at foot of leaf a1r; early ms. ownership inscription ("D iser ce[n]nino dinicholo capellano i[n] s[an]c[t]a maria delfiore") of Cennino di Nicholo, a cleric attached to Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early parchment.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with occasional damage to or loss of ms. folio numbers; lower portion of leaf b6 torn and mended at inner margin; ink blot on initial on leaf e8r; spine damaged.

Cited in:

Goff C-338

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 616 (IB.27109)

GW 6409

BSB-Ink. C-203

BN cat. des incun. C-193

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2844

ISTC ic00338000

OCLC:

249335269