Il libro chiamato Altro Marte della vita & gesti dello illustrissimo & potentissimo capitanio Nicolo Picinino da Perosa, visconti de Aragonia / Laure[n]tius Spiritus de Perusia co[m]posunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spirito, Lorenzo, -1496.

Contributor:

Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Condottieri--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Condottieri.

History, Military.

Italy--History, Military--1268-1559--Early works to 1800.

Italy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Incunabula.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

De Landau, Horace, barone, 1824-1903 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

88 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Altro Marte

Fingerprint:

roa- tota loce ElDe (C) 1489 (R)

Place of Publication:

Stampata inuicenza : [Simon Bevilacqua], adi viiij de aprile del Mcccclxxxviiij [9 April 1489]

Notes:

"This poem in terza rima, divided into three books, recounts the exploits of the condottier Niccolò Piccinino (died 1444) and his sons Francesco and Giacomo. The text begins on 5a but is preceded on 3b-4b by the chapter describing the end of Giacomo's career in 1465; this chapter, called 'Cap. i' by the printer, should really conclude the whole narrative."--BM 15th cent.

Title from incipit of text on leaf a1r, which reads: Incomincia Il Libro chiamato Altro Marte della vita & gesti dello Illustrissimo & potentissimo Capitanio Nicolo Picinino da perosa visconti de aragonia Laure[n]tius Spiritus de Perusia co[m]posunt.

Printer's name from ISTC; place and date of printing from colophon on leaf o6r, which reads: Stampata inuicenza adi. viiij. de aprile del. M.cccc.lxxxviiij. Deo gratias Amen.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a1r: 62 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 227 (235) x 133 mm.; col. width: 61 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Register on leaf o6r.

Signatures: pi⁴ a-o⁶ (leaf pi1 blank).

Explicit on leaf o6r reads: Qui finisscie il libro chiamato altro marte composto escripto per mano de me Lore[n]zo Spirito da peroscia abatiste de Ranaldo daperoscia finito adi doi de aprile mille quattro ce[n]to Seta[n]ta.

Published in Vicenza.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 288 x 200 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper; a few early ms. marginal notes in brown ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy has on front pastedown bookplate of Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903) with his monogram of interlocking Hs and Ls beneath a crown and stamped shelf-mark ("4014").

Penn Libraries copy bound in full brown leather; boards and spine tooled in gold; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title ("LORENZO SPIRITO LIBRO CHIAMATO ALTROMARTE") stamped in gold on spine; imprint ("VICENZA 1489") stamped in gold at foot of spine; gold-ruled cover edges; gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf pi1 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has stain at head of blank leaf preceding leaf pi2 and leaves pi2-pi4; stain in fore-edge margin of leaves d5-e3, l1-l4, and m1-m5; spine mended at hinges.

Cited in:

Goff S-685

BM 15th cent. VII, p. 1051 (IB.31884)

GW M43161

BN cat. des incun. S-373

BSB-Ink. S-529

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3514

ISTC is00685000

OCLC:

249359052