[La vita di Cristo : (Italian)]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornazzano, Antonio, 1429-1484.

Contributor:

Piasi, Tommaso di, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Early works to 1800.

Jesus Christ.

Venice (Italy)--History--Turkish Wars, 1453-1571--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

Incunabula.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

58 unnumbered leaves (last leaf blank) ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Incipit of text: Ad serenissimum Venetorum dominum eiusque ciuitatis principem clariss. De fide & uita Cristi Antonii Cornazani Placentini uatis liber incipit

Ad serenissimvm Venetorum dominvm eivsqve ciuitatis principem clariss. De fide & uita Cristi Antonii Cornazani Placentini uatis liber incipit

Ad serenissimum Venetorum dominum eiusque civitatis principem clariss. De fide & vita Christi Antonii Cornazani Placentini vatis liber incipit

De fide & uita Cristi Antonii Cornazani Placentini uatis liber

De fide & vita Christi Antonii Cornazani Placentini vatis liber

Fingerprint:

e.ia reno sese DECA (C) 1492 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impresso in Venetia : Per Thomaso di Piasi, M.CCCC.LXXXXII. die. xv. de noue[m]bro [15 Nov. 1492]

Contents:

La vita di Cristo

Carmen heroicum pro laudibus Venetiarum.

Notes:

Contains a verse life of Christ in Italian terza rima and a poem in Latin hexameters praising Venice's stand against the Ottoman Empire.

Title from Goff.

Imprint from colophon on leaf 3h3v.

Chancery quarto. Leaf 3a2: 30 lines; area of text: 159 x 79 mm. Initial spaces. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: 3a-3f⁸ 3g⁶ 3h⁴ (leaf 3h4 blank).

Leaf 3g4 signed "ggg 3".

Caption on leaf 3h1r reads: Eiusdem auctoris pro eiusdem urbis laudibus Minerua heroico carmine.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 201 x 145 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has in a post-medieval hand ms. pagination in head outer corners of leaves 3a3r-3h3v ("3"-"114"), headlines in Italian and enumeration of stanzas in "La vita di Cristo," and some marginal annotations in "La vita di Cristo"; most initials supplied in ms. (in the same post-medieval hand?); effaced ms. inscription in head outer corner of leaf 3a1r.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on back pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy bound in nineteenth-century(?) full morocco-grain blue cloth(?); boards triple-ruled in blind; 5 raised bands on spine; author's surname and brief title stamped in gold on spine; place and date of printing (now partially effaced) stamped in gold at foot of spine; gold-ruled turn-ins; all edges gilt.

Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged.

Cited in:

Goff C-913

GW 7551

ISTC ic00913000

OCLC:

249340419