Libro titulato Spechio di croce : nouamente impresso [et] con debita diligentia corretto, et in lingua fiorentina ridutto : opera spirituale e molto deuotissima, ne laquale si co[n]tiene tutti li misterij de la passione di Christo, e la nobilitade de la sanctissima croce con altri diuotissimi fioretti, che la tabula ricorda e nel libro legendo trouerete.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavalca, Domenico, -1342.

Contributor:

Bonelli, Manfredo, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Specchio di croce

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Crucifixion--Early works to 1800.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--Person and offices--Early works to 1800.

Crucifixion.

Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Penn Provenance:

Skutch, Robert Frank (bookplate)

Fratres Ordinis Eremitarum (inscription)

Physical Description:

128 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Spechio di croce

Fingerprint:

a-na uoel i-i& al&r (C) 1515 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impresso in Venetia ... : Sta[m]pato [per] Maestro Ma[n]frino Bon de Monfera, MCCCCCXV [1515]

Notes:

"Questo libro si chiama Lo specchio della croce, compilato da frate Domenico Caualcha da Vico pisano de lordine di sancto Domenico, homo di sancta uita"--leaf A2r.

Imprint from colophon on last leaf.

Signatures: A-Q⁴ (A4 blank) (I2 signed II).

Woodcut illustration representing the Crucifixion on title page, previously used for the first time, in Colletanio de cose nove spirituale. Cf. Essling, 1132.

Last page blank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full vellum; author and title in ms. on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in half brown leather over bevelled-edge wooden boards; two raised bands on spine; remains of four leather clasps.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Que continentur in hoc uolumine sunt infrascripta uidelicet. Regula beati p. nostri Francisci ... Impressum Brixiae : Per Iacobum Brita[n]nicum Brixianum, MDI xv Cale. Ianuarii. [1502]

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has the bookplate of Robert Frank Skutch on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has ms. register on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has ms. inscription on t.p. which reads: "Questo libro he del loco de la heremita."

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has a few ms. notes in margins throughout.

Cited in:

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 1860

Esling, V.M. Bibliographie des livres à figures vénitiens, 1132

EDIT 16 CNCE 10387

Isaac, F. Index to the early printed books in BM, 12629

OCLC:

81993014