[Sanctuarium, sive, Vitae Sanctorum].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mombrizio, Bonino, 1424?-1482?

Contributor:

Printer for Boninus Mombritius, active 1476-1477, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Christian saints.

Christian saints--Biography.

Christian martyrs--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Christian martyrs.

Christian legends--Early works to 1800.

Christian legends.

Christian martyrs--Biography.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Barzenorius, Petrus (former owner) (inscription)

Barzenorius, Joannes Baptista (former owner) (inscription)

Barzenorius, Octavianus (former owner) (inscription)

Barzenorius, Benedictus (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 37 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Sanctuarium

Vitae Sanctorum

Fingerprint:

ums: toto niro sepr (C) 1477 (Q) v.1

v.v. læni ust: pore (C) 1477 (Q) v.2

Place of Publication:

[Milan] : [Printer for Boninus Mombritius], [1477?]

Notes:

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC. "A copy of vol. 2 in Univ. Cattolica in Milan was purchased on 14 Sept. 1478 (T. Foffano in Italia medioevale e umanistica, 22 (1979), 509-11)"--ISTC.

Royal folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 49 lines to a full column; area of text: 272 x 172 mm.; col. width: 76 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

In two parts.

Signatures: v. 1: pi⁴ a¹⁰ 2a-4a⁸ va⁸ via⁸ viia⁸ viiia¹⁰ b-5b⁸ bvi⁸ bvii⁸ bviii⁸ bviiii⁸ bx⁸ c-5c⁸ vic⁸ viic⁸ viiic⁸ viiiic⁶(viiiic6+chi1) d-4d⁸ e-3e⁸ 4e² f⁸ 2f⁶ F-2F⁸ 3F⁶ g-4g⁸ (leaves pi1, a1, 4d8, 4e2 and 4g8 blanks).

Vol. 1: leaf a1 (blank) unsigned and leaves a2-a5 signed "a i", "a ii", "a iii" and "a iiii", respectively.

Vol. 1: leaf d2 signed "d ii". A variant: leaf d2 unsigned.

Vol. 1: leaf 2d2 signed "dd ii". A variant: leaf 2d2 signed "d ii".

Vol. 1: leaf 2f3 signed "ff iii". A variant: leaf 2f3 signed "f iii".

Signatures: v. 2: pi² h¹⁰ 2h⁸ I-4I⁸ L⁸ 2L¹⁰ m-4m⁸ vm⁸ vim⁸ viim⁸ viiim⁸ viiiim⁸ xm⁸ xim¹⁰ n-3n⁸ 4n⁸(4n3+2chi1) p-4p⁸ vp⁸ q⁸ r⁶ 2r⁴ s-4s⁸ vis⁸ viis⁸ viiis⁸ T¹² t⁸ 2t-3t⁶ V⁸ 2V¹⁰ (leaves h1 and 3t6 blanks; leaf 2chi1 not present in all copies).

Vol. 2: leaf h1 (blank) unsigned and leaves h2-h5 signed "h i", "h ii", "h iii" and "h iiii", respectively; leaf q1 signed "vip i" and leaves q2-q4 signed "qi", "qii" and "qiii", respectively; leaves T1-T6 signed "T i", "T i", "T ii", "Tiii", "Tiiii" and T iiiii", respectively; leaves 2I2 and 2r1 unsigned.

Vol. 2: Leaf 4n3v ends in the middle of the life of Saints Nicasius and Eutropia (col. 2, line 49 reads: "ctoriam uestre dignitatis in rabiem con") and leaf 4n4 (signed "p i") begins the life of Saint Parmenius. In some copies the missing text from the life of Saints Nicasius and Eutropia (beginning: ventitis) is supplied on an inserted printed leaf. This inserted leaf is variously set in one (e.g. BNF Res. 103, BSB 2 Inc.s.a. 888, PML ChL1071) or two columns (e.g. BN di Torino XV.11.2, Boston PL) and may or may not be contemporary with the rest of the bookblock. (A.K. Frazier dates "two different tipped-in sheets ... designed to correct the lack" of text to the eighteenth century; cf. her Possible lives (New York: Columbia UP, 2005), p. 142, n. 190). Ms. insertions are also recorded in some copies; others record no insertion (cf. BM 15th cent., Bodleian, Walsh). Penn Libraries copy has inserted after leaf 4n3 one leaf containing one full column and one partial column of text on the recto (left column: 45 lines; right column: 22 lines; area of text: 263 x 163 mm.; col. width: 73 mm.). Cf. Goldschmidt.

Foliation: v. 1: [349] leaves (leaves 1, 5, 255, 281 and 349 blanks) ; v. 2: [365] leaves (leaves 3 and 347 blanks).

Vol. 1: caption on leaf pi1r reads: Tabula in sequens sanctuarium.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: v. 1: 344 x 249 mm. ; v. 2: 352 x 254 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: v. 1 without rubrication ; v. 2 has one 6-line illuminated and colored historiated initial B (Virgin Mary and Christ Child) with floriate extensions on leaf h1r and other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue ink (the initial I has been incorrectly supplied in red on leaf 3s8r; the correct initial L has been supplied by a reader in brown ink).

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper; modern ms. bio-bibliographical notes in Latin and Italian on verso of blank leaf preceding first printed leaf in volume; ms. foliation in brown ink and pencil on most leaves; partially illegible ms. inscription ("Presbitteri [...] [...] [...]"), the latter portion struck through, on leaf pi2r; early ms. corrections to Tabula in brown ink.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2: modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper; some early ms. notes, paragraph marks and marginal marks in brown ink in text; ms. signature mark supplied in pencil on leaf 2r1r; ms. foliation of leaves in pencil.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1954 from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: unidentified oval stamp on leaves a1r and pi2r and pi4v.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2: on leaf pi1r, 3 early ms. inscriptions recording the ownership of this volume by four priests of the Barzenorius family: Petrus Barzenorius, canon of the church of St. John the Baptist; Joannes Baptista Barzenorius, canon of the same church; Octavianus Barzenorius, canon of the same church; and Benedictus Barzenorius, whose inscription may identify the church in question as the Duomo di Monza, dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Penn Libraries copy: each vol. bound in full brown leather; boards tooled in gold and blind; gold- and blind-tooled spine panels; title, volume number and place and putative date of imprint ("(1479)") stamped in gold on spine; blue endpapers.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: v. 1: leaves pi1, a1, 4e2 and 4g8 (blanks) wanting ; v.2: leaves h1 and 2t6 (blanks) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: gathering pi bound in at end of volume (after leaf 4g7).

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2: some wormholes in lower portion of a few leaves at beginning of volume.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: leaf d2 signed "d ii"; leaf 2d2 signed "d ii"; leaf 2f3 signed "f iii".

Cited in:

Goff M-810

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 736 (IC.26952)

GW M25213

BN cat. des incun. M-522

BSB-Ink. M-556

Cat. of books printed in the 15th c. now in the Bodleian Lib., M-306

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3089

Goldschmidt. Cat. 57 (1940), 45

ISTC im00810000

OCLC:

249496575