Vita del glorioso S. Giouan Gualberto Azzini nobil Fiorentino, e fondatore della Sacra Religione di Vallombrosa / composta da M. Niccolò Lorenzini fisico da Monte Pulciano ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorenzini, Niccolò.

Contributor:

Marescotti, Giorgio, active 1563-1601, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Giovanni Gualberto, Saint, approximately 1000-1073.

Giovanni Gualberto.

Penn Provenance:

Monastero di Astino (Bergamo, Italy) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Grassi, Angelico (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 358 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Vita del glorioso S. Giovan Gualberto Azzini nobil Fiorentino, e fondatore della Sacra Religione di Vallombrosa

Fingerprint:

l'a- i-i- e.ne PrTa (3) 1599 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Firenze : Appresso Giorgio Marescotti, 1599.

Notes:

In verse.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ 2[daggers]² A-L⁴ M-2E⁸ 2F².

Woodcut illustration of Saint Giovanni Gualberto on title page.

Publisher's device on verso of leaf 2E8.

Woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.

EDIT 16 lists another variant without gathering 2[daggers]2, containing the dedication to Padre Marco da Pelago, general president of Vallombrosa.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and title stamped in gold on a label on spine; all edges red.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription of the Monastero del Santo Sepolcro in Astino, Italy: "Est Mon[aster]ij S[ancti] Sepulcri de Astini Gene[?] D. Angelici de Grassij a Martinengo Abbatij", on title page. The monastery and church of Saint Sepulcro were founded in 1128 by abbot Bertario of The Vallumbrosan Order and later became part of the complex of the Monastero di Astino (or Astino Monastery); Don Angelico Grassi was the abbot of the San Sepulcro d'Astino.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 363

EDIT 16 CNCE 29313

OCLC:

20348962