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Compendio di reuelatione dello inutile seruo di Iesu Christo Frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dello Ordine de Frati Predicatori.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
- Standardized Title:
- Compendio di revelatione
- Language:
- Italian
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Physical Description:
- 48 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Compendio di revelatione dello inutile servo di Jesu Christo Frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dello Ordine de Frati Predicatori
- Fingerprint:
- ieon toit podo ogre (C) 1495 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Impresso in Firenze : Per Ser Lorenzo Morgiani & Giouanni di Maguntia, Anno Mcccclxxxxv die primo Septembris [1 Sept. 1495]
- Notes:
- Title from caption on leaf a1r.
- Imprint from colophon on leaf f8v.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf b4r: 37 lines, plus printed marginalia; area of text: 158 x 89 (98) mm. Printed initials (one floriated) and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Five woodcut illustrations: one (74 x 102 mm.) of Savonarola preaching (leaf a1r); two (74 x 101 mm.) of the devil disputing with Savonarola and four female saints (leaf b3v, repeated on c1r); one (76 x 104 mm) of Savonarola and four female saints before the gates of Florence as the city of God (leaf d4v); one (184 x 126 mm.) of the triple crown of the Virgin on a black ground (leaf d5v).
- Signatures a-f⁸.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 197 x 124 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy has early ms. marginal mark on leaf f6r.
- Purchased for the Lea Library.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern blue morocco; boards and spine ruled in blind; gold-ruled turn-ins; spine stamped in gold with author's last name, title, place and date of publication; binding signed ("Wetter") in blind on tail-edge turn-in of lower board; housed in a paper slipcase.
- Cited in:
- Goff S-180
- BM 15th cent. VI, p. 683 (IA.27805)
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3004
- ISTC is00180000
- OCLC:
- 271810156
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