[De monte pietatis anno 1490 Veronae instituto].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Advogarius, Petrus Donatus.

Contributor:

Fridenperger, Paulus, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Pawnbroking--Early works to 1800.

Pawnbroking.

Interest--Early works to 1800.

Interest.

Banks and banking--Italy--Verona--15th century--Early works to 1800.

Banks and banking.

Italy--Verona.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889 (former owner) (inscription)

Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910 (autograph)

Olivetans (Verona, Italy) (inscription)

Santa Maria in Organo (Monastery : Verona, Italy) (inscription)

Veronensis, Paulus (inscription)

Volateranus, Michael (autograph)

Wright, James Osborne, d. 1920 (inscription)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Text begins: Petrus Donatus Aduogarius senatui populoque Veronensi ...

Fr. Philelphi Orationes (Brixiâ 1488) : Aliumq. orat. (Româ 1493) PU

Fingerprint:

tqam t*ro rae- siiu (C) 1490 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Verona] : [Paulus Fridenperger], [after 25 Sept. 1490]

Notes:

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a1v: 28 lines; area of text: 156 x 103 mm. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for.

Signatures: a⁶.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is no. 2 in a volume of 15 incunables (largely orations, many addressed to or delivered in the presence of Pope Alexander VI) printed between 1486 and 1493, most in Rome by Stephan Plannck, Andreas Fritag or Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, the whole first bound together in the early 16th century.

Leaf size: 196 x 143 mm.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. foliation of leaves a1-a6 ("188"-"193") in head outer corner in brown ink; early ms. manicule in brown ink on leaf a2v; a few early ms. corrections to text in brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy has at foot of second leaf of first work in volume in brown ink early 16th-century inscription ("Jesus Die 26 octobris 1522 Nos Fr[ater] Michael volat[eranus] Cong[regation]is Mo[n]tis ol[ivet]j hu[m]ilis Abb[as] Gen[eralis] Concedimus huius librj vsu[m] fr[atr]i Paulo veronen[se] [ser]uata t[ame]n prop[ri]etate Mon[aster]io S. Mari[a]e in organis d[e] verona") in which Michael Volateranus, abbot general of the Olivetans, grants the use of this volume to Paulus Veronensis of the Olivetan community of Santa Maria in Organo in Verona, Italy.

Penn Libraries copy has on front pastedown in brown ink partially illegible 19th-century ms. note ("Purchased of Mr. Wright from the Barlow Collection. Oct. 10 1889 See Galenus. De Med[...] Introd[...] fol. 179r") recording the purchase of this volume from the library of Samuel L.M. Barlow through James Osborne Wright; ms. note beginning "I defy any true bibliophile to look at this book for the first time on the Quays, as I did, without experiencing a very deep emotion" and signed "H.H." (expanded in another hand to "H.H[arrsse]", i.e. Henry Harrisse) on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; gold-stamped leather spine label ("FR. PHILELPHI ORATIONES BRIXIÂ 1488 / ALIUMQ. ORAT. ROMÂ 1493"); parchment leaf, probably from left board of previous (16th-century?) binding, with early ms. contents list on verso bound in after front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy: binding partially detached from textblock.

Cited in:

Goff A-58

GW 260

ISTC ia00058000

OCLC:

829426330