RECENT

Department of Printed Books

Notable Acquisitions 1975-1985

Italian Books 1501-1600

By D. E. Rhodes

T H E following abbreviations are used in addition to those for more standard works:

Manzi (/)

Manzi (ii)

Manzi {Hi)

Manzi {iv)

Rhodes, Soardi

Tinazzo

Pietro Manzi, Annali di Giovanni Sultzbach (Napoli 1529-1544, Capua 1547){Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, vol. lviii, Florence, 1970).

P. Manzi, La tipografia napoletana net '500. Annali di Sigistnondo Mayr—Giovanni A. de Caneto-Antonio de Frizis-Giovanni Pasquet de Sallo {i5^3-^535){Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, vol. lxii, Florence, 1971).

P. Manzi, La tipografia napoietana nel '500. Annali di Mattia Cancer ed eredi{1529-1595) {Bibltoteca di bibliografia italiana, vol. lxv, Florence, 1972).

P. Manzi, La tipografia napoletana nel '500. Annali di Giovanni Paolo Suganappo-Raimondo Amato-Giovanm de Boy-Giovanni Maria Scotto e tipografi minori{1533-1570) {Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, vol. lxx, Florence, 1973).

D. E. Rhodes, Annali tipografici di Lazzaro de' Soardi {Biblioteca di bibliografiaitaliana, vol. lxxxii, Florence, 1978).

Giampietro Tinazzo, 'II tipografo-editore Iacopo Pocatela (Pavia 1490-Venezia1538)', Memorie delta Accademia Patavina di SS. LL. AA.: Classe di Scienzemorali, Lettere ed Arti, lxx (1958).

ACRIMATUS, Prosperus. Pareneticum carmenin Catonis praecepta de moribus. In CiuitateCastelli: per Antonium Mazochium £5' Nico-laum Guccium, 1539. 4*'.

Antonio Mazzocchi and Nicola and Bartolom-meo Gucci, who had already printed in Florenceand Siena, came in 1538 to Citta di Castello toprint the town's statutes. The four booksprinted by them in this town, now held by theBritish Library, may well represent the sumtotal of their activity there, since by 1541 they

were established in Cortona, of which the Guccibrothers were natives.

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A N GEL I US, Nicolaus, Bucinensis. De complexupartium orationis. [Florence: Bartolommeode'Libri{?), or his heirs{?), c.1510-1520.] 4̂ .̂

GJV 1905 records only the copy in the Biblio-theque Nationale, Paris, but there are alsocopies in Florence BN, the Vatican, Rome B.Alessandrina, and Chicago, Newberry Library.

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The book is not now considered to be anincunable.

Niccolo Angeli, born at Bucine near Arezzo,was a public lecturer in Greek and Latin atSiena and later at Florence, where he editedTerence in 1513, Plautus in 1514, Quintilian in1515, and Priscian in 1525. See D. E. Rhodes,'Nicolaus Angelius: GW 1905', Gutenberg Jahr-buch ig83, pp. 177-8.

BASLE, Council of. Decreta 7 acta ConciliiBasiliensis nuper impressa. Mediolani: perGotardum Ponticum., 1511. fol.

The Council of Basle took place in 1431. Itsdecrees, edited by Sebastian Brant, were firstpublished by Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim atBasle shortly after i March 1499 (IA.37715). Itis therefore surprising to find a new editionprinted at Milan in 1511. A full-page woodcutpurports to show the assembly of the Council,but as the same woodcut is also used for theCouncil of Constance in the same volume, it canhardly be considered as an authentic repre-sentation of the scene. Bound after a copy ofthe Acta of the Council of Constance, q.v. Fromthe library of Sir William Stirling Maxwell(1818-78).

1562/101(2).

BERNARD, Saint. [Psalterium B. VirgtnisMariae.] Psalteriug beate Marie virginis.Floren.: Bartholomeus de Gianettis Brixianusimpensis hereduj Angeli Floretini, 1524. 16°.

The printer is Bartolommeo Zanetti fromBrescia, who printed in Florence between 1515and 1524, but is much better known for his farmore copious output of printing in Venicebetween 1535 and 1540, when he specialized inGreek. Another copy of this very rare little bookis in the National Library of Florence, but thecopy now acquired by the British Library is inmuch better condition. Original blind-stampedbinding, with clasp.

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BRANT, Sebastian. Expositiones siue declara-tiones omnium titulorum iuris. De modostudendi in vtrocp iure. Neapoli: Per loannemAntoniu Ganetum, 1511. 4*̂ .

Manzi {ii), Caneto no. 17. Manzi's accountcontains several errors, such as Trima edizioneignota ai bibliofili'. The first edition waspublished by Michael Furter at Basle in 1490,and was reprinted numerous times, especiallyin Basle; but to find an Italian reprint, par-ticularly one printed at Naples, is most unusual.Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), author of thefamous Narrenschiff, or Ship of Fools, was alsoa Professor of Law at Basle, where he editeda number of legal works. His preface to thepresent edition, addressed to Andreas Helmut,is dated from Basle on i May 1505. See BarbaraHalporn, 'Sebastian Brant as an editor of

iRcucbtioni x>dh)Ocata Clpiaraoa iW^ontc f aico:oclozdinc oi

juristic texts', Cutenherg Jahrbuch 1984,

PP- 36-51-Of other copies of this excessively rare

Neapolitan edition, Manzi was only able torecord that the copy at Cava dei Tirrenidisappeared during the destruction of theSecond World War, while another was sold byLubrano in 1911 and its present whereabouts isunknown.

CLARE, Saint, of Monte Falco. Vita: Miracoli 7Reuelationi della Beata Chiara da MonteFalco: de lordine di Sancto Augustino.Examinate da .xii. Cardinali. Venetia: PerLazaro de Soardi, 9 October 1515. 8°-

With a woodcut portrait of the saint.Essling 1844. Sander 2000. Rhodes, Soardi

107, recording three copies in Italy.

CONSTANCE, Council of. 1414-1418. Actascitu dignissima Constantiensis Concilii.Mediolani: per Gotardum Ponticum, 1511. fol.

First published at Hagenau in 1500 (IA. 13800).

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COTTA, Catellianus. Memoralia. (Ex iureDiuino 1 Humano Excerpta. —Ex varijsDoctoif lectionibus.) 2 pt. Ticini: ApudLacob de Burgo Franco, 1511. 4".

The two parts are dated respectively i Marchand 23 April 1511. Tinazzo (no. 53) quotescopies at Padua Seminario and Rome, B.Vallicelliana. There is also a copy in the Libraryof Congress. The author was a Milanese pro-fessor of law who died in 1553.

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DOCUMENTI. Documenti morali, vtilissimi adogni persona. Ascoli: [Giacomo Pinettt], 1583.80.

Although this pamphlet of four leaves mentionsno printer, a pencil note inside the cover reads'Ascoli, Giacomo Pinetti, 1583'. The Libraryhas no other examples of this printer's work,but he printed in the same year 1583 at AscoliPiceno an anonymous comedy entitled // partosupposito, of which there is a copy in CambridgeUniversity Library. He was presumably theonly printer at work in the town in that year.

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DuRANTE, Pietro. Libro chiamato Leandra.Venetia: Iacobo [Pencio] da Lecho, 23 March1508. 4°-

A notary by profession, Pietro Durante is bestknown for his heroic poem in sesta rima, theLeandra, in the chivalresque style, dealing as itdoes with the 'battles and great deeds of thebarons of France'. This is the first edition, andthe poem was reprinted at least fifteen times inthe sixteenth century and six times in theseventeenth. Essling (no. 1590) shows that theforty-four small woodcuts in the text come fromthe Trabisonda istoriata of 1492, the Livy of1493, and other Venetian books. The Trabi-sonda istoriata was printed by Christophorus dePensis (IA.23462) and the Livy by JoannesRubeus Vercellensis (IB.23157). This shows towhat a great extent the same woodcuts werepassed on from one printer to another atVenice, often making the identification ofanonymously printed books virtually impos-sible. Many of these woodcuts are signed 'F' , anartist who has not been identified.

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ERASMUS, Desiderius. De recta LatiniGraecique sermonis pronunciatione dialogus.[Toscolano:] P. Alex. Pag. Benacenses [Alex-ander ($ Paganinus de Paganinis, f.1530]. 8".

This edition of Erasmus is so rare that it is notmentioned by Ugo Baroncelli, La stampa nella

Riviera Bresciana del Garda nei secoli XV e XVI(Edizioni dell'Ateneo di Salo, 1964)- It wasevidently reprinted from the edition of SimonColinaeus, Paris, 1528.

This is not the only book by Erasmus ofwhich the Paganini firm printed an edition atToscolano: there is also his De octo partiumorationis constructione libellus, 'Thusculani apudBenacum in aedibus Alexandri Paganini', dated23 November 1532. There is a copy in theNational Library of Rome. (See Marcelle andPaul Grendler, 'The Erasmus holdings ofRoman and Vatican libraries', Erasmus inEnglish (University of Toronto), xiii (1984),p. 13.) This edition is likewise unknown to theotherwise excellent study by Ugo Baroncelli.

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FiERA, Baptists. Comentaria nou? doctrin?in artem medicinalem diffinitiuam Galeni.[Mantua^ C.1520.J fol: 343 leaves.

A collection of the medical writings of theMantuan doctor and poet Baptista Fiera (c.1460-1540?). The book has no imprint, but wasclearly printed soon after 7 May 1515. It hassometimes been attributed to a press in Venice,but the type seems to be exactly as that of theAmbrosius Neapolitanus, printed at Mantua byan unidentified printer on 30 March 1519(3833-^.13(5)). Other copies are in the Bod-leian; St John's College, Oxford; the NationalLibrary of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; andthe Biblioteca Colombina, Seville.

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Hymni diuini. Insulae Douariensium: perGuidum de Bonazariis, [1521.?] 8°.

The author's epistle to Pope Leo X is dated on2 :̂ 'Romae nonis Ianuariis M.D.XXI.' Theonly book known to have been printed in thesixteenth century at Isola Dovarese, a village inthe province of Cremona. Guidus de Bonazariis,Cremonensis, printed one other book on 22May 1518 'in prouincia Brixie', presumably atSalo.

The only other copy so far located is inCambridge University Library (Adams F 439).

C.118.C.25.

G H A L I G A I , Francesco. Summa de arith-metica. Fireze: Bernardo Zucchetta, 1521. 4°.

The first edition of a beautifully illustratededition of a work on arithmetic of which theLibrary hitherto possessed only the Florentineeditions of 1548 and 1552. The BibliothequeNationale, Paris, has two copies, one of themprinted on vellum.

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G H E B E L I N O , Stefano. Tesoro essemplare perimparare a scriuere le piu occorrenti sorti diiettere. Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio, 1596. obi,8°.

A rare little writing-book by Stefano Ghebelinoof Brescia, of which no other edition seems to berecorded.

G R A P A L D I , Francesco Mario. De partibusaedium libellus. [Parma: Angelus Ugoletus],1501. 4°.

With the purchase of this copy, the Librarynow has all four Parma editions of this popularwork, the others having appeared in [1494?],1506, and 1516, as well as editions of Venice,1517, and Turin, 1516, 1517 (the last acquiredin 1980, pressmark C.io6.e.22.). As Brunetremarks, twelve editions in less than forty yearsshows how successful this work was.

Lcrrcn Ci mmDnc Mercantile.

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Stcf. Cheb. fcribebat.

CinccUirtfca Caifuia.

Si(f.Gkb.fitibebai.

Francesco Mario Grapaldi of Parma (1464-1515) describes in the form of a dictionary theconstruction of an Italian villa, and is thus animportant source of information on Italianarchitecture during the Renaissance. The pre-face to the second edition, dated 1501, mentionsthat the first edition (undated) had appearedseven years earlier.

Colombina, and Cambridge University Library(F. J. Norton Collection).

G Y S B E R T O , Alexandrino. La sancta vita diBeato Ambrosio da Siena. [By Gysberto andthree other authors.] Siena: Symeone diNicolao [dei Nardi], 23 August 1509. 4°.

Two copies of this book are in Siena,B. Comunale, and one each in Bologna,B. Comunale dell'Archiginnasio; Seville, B.

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J O A N N E S B A P T I S T A EVANGELISTA, Pice-nus. Apologia. Firmi: Apud Astulphum deGrandis, 1577. 4°.

Astolfo de Grandi was a typically itinerantprinter who worked at Ancona in 1565-6, atOsimo in 1569, and at Fermo between 1576and 1578, according to the British Library'sholdings.

JuvENALis, Decimus Junius. Iunii Iuuenaliset A. Persii satirae. Eporediae: Apud Philip.Ardizoni, 1554. 8°: A-K^, pp. 160.

With four-part woodcut title-page border,poorly executed, and two woodcut initials in thetext. Marina Bersano Begey and GiuseppeDondi, Le cinquecentine piemontesi (Turin,1966), pp. 417-40, record only thirteen booksprinted at Ivrea (near Turin), of which PhilipArdizzone printed only two, both in 1554. Thepresent edition of Juvenal and Persius has nomonth date, so it cannot be proved whether ornot it preceded the Mancinelli of May of thatyear. Three copies are recorded, all in Turin(no. 1028).

From the Broxbourne Library of AlbertEhrman, 1977.

C.118.C.23.

LuciAN, of Samosata. Le vere narrationi. . . Tradutte nouellamente in uolgare perIacouo Pelle Negra da Troia. Napoli: AppressoMatthio Cance in la Strata della VicariaVecchia, 1553. 8°: fifty-six leaves. A-0^

The Vera historia of Lucian had been printed inLatin at Naples in 1475 (IA.29370) and atVenice in 1493 (IB.23644). The translator, anative of Troia near Foggia, addresses his workto Messer Cataneo Rauaschieri of Genoa 'dalnostro studiolo in Manfredonia ali x. de Aprile

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del MD.LI i r . For anyone working at Man-fredonia in 1553, Naples was the nearest city inwhich he could find a printer.

Unknown to Manzi {Hi).

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La vita de cortigiani. . . Interprete GiulioRoselli Fiorentino. Vinegia: Venturino diRoffinelli, 1542. 8*': twelve leaves, the lastblank. A-C.

A very unusual feature of this book is theprinted dedication on the verso of the title-page: Giulio Roselli a Carlo suo fratello. Thetranslator was evidently living in Vicenza; nomore seems to be known about him. Since thereis no trace of this work among the collectededitions of Lucian in Greek, it may be anoriginal composition by the 'translator'.

MuTii, Mutio de'. II Padre di Fameglia.Teramo: Isidoro, ^ Lepido Facij, 1591. 8°.

The first book printed at Teramo. The printersIsidoro and Lepido Facii moved to Campli in1593, to Aquila in 1594-5, ^"d then partedcompany, Lepido remaining at Aquila until1599, and Isidoro moving to Chieti where heprinted until 1616.

Muzio Muzij lived from 1535 to 1602.

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NAPLES. Confraternita e Compagnia deiBianchi. Capitoli e statuti nuouamente rifor-mati. Napoli: Alo Segio de Porto per Raymundode Amato, [^.1560.] 4°: forty-eight leaves.

There is no mention of this work among theforty-eight books described as printed byRaimondo Amato (1551-70) in Manzi {iv).The preface explains that in 1519 two menin Naples, one from Genoa named HettorVernaccia and the other a priest of the CanonsRegular of Sant'Agostino named Don CalistoPiacentino, decided to found a new congrega-

tion in the city to help the sick, the destitute,and those condemned to death. The newconfraternity took the name of Santa MariaSuccurre Miseris, and as its members wore awhite hahit, they were commonly known as theBianchi. In 1524 they moved their headquartersto the Hospital of Incurables of Santa Maria delPopolo. On 15 June 1550 the brethren deter-mined to revise their rules for publication. Onthe verso of the title-leaf is a woodcut of poorquality, showing the BVM suckling the ChildJesus. The text is in thirty-seven chapters.

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O'FiHELY, Mauritius, Archbishop of Tuam.Lectura in q. doc. subtilis [i.e. Johannes DunsScotus] super ysagogis Porphyrij. Venetijs:mddato 1 expesis heredu Octauiani Scoti, perBonetu locatellu, 1504. fol.

The philosophical works of Maurice O'Fihely(Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, from 1506to 1513) were particularly popular in Italybetween about 1490 and 1520. He was himselflecturing at Padua between 1499 and 1505. 'Heis said to have acted for some years as principalsuperintendent of the press set up by OttavianoScotto at Venice, but of this no satisfactoryevidence is forthcoming' {DNB). He died atGalway in 1513.

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O L I M P O DEGLI ALESSANDRI, Caio Baldas-sare. Sermoni da morti latini 1 vulgari.Perusia: Hieronymo de cartholarijs, 4 Decem-ber 1521. 8*̂ .

Frater Baldassar Olympius was a native ofSassoferrato. He dates his preface to Alexanderde Alexandris (also from Sassoferrato) inPerugia on 4 January 1521, i.e. 1521/2. Giro-lamo Cartolari printed in Perugia from at least1510 to 1544.

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PERNO, Guilielmus de. XXIIII Consiliapheudalia. In ciuitate Messan^: per pitruciuspiram, 27 May 1537. fol.

The British Library has only four other booksprinted by Petruccio Spira at Messina between1535 and 1562. Achille Bonifacio, Gli annali deitipograji messinesi del Cinquecento (Vibo Valen-tia, 1977), no. 13, records copies of this book atCatania U., Messina U., Naples U., Naples N.,Palermo C , Palermo N., Rome U., and RomeN., but it appears to be rare north of Rome.

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PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Fran-cesco, Count. L'amore diuino. Libri quattuor.Romae: per lacobum Mazochium, 26 Novem-ber 1516. 4°.

F. Ascarelli, Annali tipografici di GiacomoMazzocchi (Florence, 1961), no. 105, recordscopies in Rome, B. Corsiniana and Angelica.Sander 5679.

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Libri due de appetitu prim? mated?.[Rome: Marcello Silber, £-.i5i5.] 4°.

No imprint, but the printer can be identifiedtypographically. Not in Alberto Tinto, Gliannali tipografici di Eucario e Marcello Silber{1S01-152J) (Florence, 1968), which does nottake into sufficient account the enormous out-put of anonymous printing by this firm. Thewoodcut title-page border is in fact Tinto's'cornice tipo III ' .

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PiETRO, Aretino. La Passione di Giesu. Ri-stampata nuouamente. Venetia: [FrancescoMarcolinii?)], 1545. 8°.

— La vita di Maria Vergine. [ Venice:Francesco Marcolini{?)], 1540. 8°.

La vita di Maria Vergine. Nuouamentecorretta e ristampata. [Venice: FrancescoMarcolinii?)], 1545. 8°.

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These are four rare editions of works by PietroAretino which can only doubtfully be ascribedto his regular Venetian printer, FrancescoMarcolini. The number of sixteenth-centuryItalian editions of works by Pietro Aretinowhich the Library has acquired since theShort-title Catalogue was published in 1958now stands at eight.

PLATO. Alcibiades. [Translated by MarsilioFicino.] In Alma Bononia: per Iustinianum deHerberia, 1521. 4"̂ .

The earliest separately printed edition in Greekof this doubtful or supposititious work of Platohitherto in the Library's collections is of Paris,1551, and the earliest Latin edition is also ofParis, 1560. But Marsilio Ficino had translatedthe whole of Plato for the first Latin editionwhich was published at Florence in 1484-5,including the Alcibiades. Giustiniano daRubiera printed at Bologna from 1495 to atleast 1532.

PoDiANUS, L'Albertus. Preseruatio a peste.Perusi^: Arte (^ impensa Cosmi Veron. Blan-chini, 24 January 1523. 8°.

Ragionamento. [ Venice: Francesco

Marcolini {?)], 1539.C.i33.d.i2.

PRASSICIUS, Lucas. Impugnatio contraAugustinum Niphum. Auerse: Impressum adinstantiam Luce prassicii per Antonium defrizisCorinaldensem, 25 June 1520. fol.

The printer Antonius de Frizzis (AntonioFrezza), a native of Corinaldo in the March of

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Ancona, printed in Naples from 1517 to 1526,making a short visit to the neighbouring town ofAversa to print two books in 1520, of which thisis one. No other sixteenth-century printing atAversa is recorded, and very little in theseventeenth.

From the Broxbourne Library of AlbertEhrman.

Questio de lmortalitate anime intellectiuesecundum mentem Aristotelis. Neapoli: Inaedihus loan. Pasq. Salod., 15 November 1521.fol.

Luca Prassicio, member of a patrician family ofAversa (precise dates not known), was a cele-brated doctor, philosopher, and member of theAccademia Pontaniana of Naples. He also wrotea history of his native Aversa, which was neverpublished.

Manzi {ii)., Pasquet de Sallo, no. 13. Othercopies are in Naples N., Rome B. Casanatense,and Rome N.

QuERNUS, Camillus. De bello Neapolitano.Libri duo. Neapoli: Cura (5 diligentia IoannisSultzbach ^ Mathaei de Cansis, October1529. fol.

This work, in hexameters, narrates the story ofthe war waged in the Kingdom of Naples by theFrench in 1527 and 1528, and in particular thesiege of Naples by Odette Foix de Lautrec.Camillo Querno, born at Monopoli (Bari) on5 August 1470, died at Naples in 1530. Othercopies of this book are at Naples, B. Gerolimi-tani, Naples BN, and Rome, B. Angelica.

Manzi (i), no. i.

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R A D I N U S T O D I S C H U S , Thomas. In PhilippuMelachthone Luteran^ hereseos defensoremOratio. Romce: Apud lacobum MazochiumRomance Academics bibliopolam, i May 1522.

The author describes himself on the title-pageas of Piacenza, Dominican, Master of Arts andSacred Theology, teacher in the University ofRome. He was one of the earliest adversaries ofLuther and the Reformation. The elaboratewoodcut border is the same as that used in theJanus Vitalis, q.v., printed by Marcellus Silberin 1521.

F. Ascarelli, Annali di Giacomo Mazzocchi,no. 154.

Sideralis Abyssus. Ticini: per Iacobpaucisdrapesem de Burgo Francho, 15 March1511. 40.

Tinazzo 54: seven copies recorded in Italy.

RiGHiNO DEI P E L L I N I , Aurelio. Oratio depace. Camerini: Ex officina Hieronymi Strin-garij £5" Hcered. Antonij Gioiosi^ 1581. 4".

Antonio Gioioso had printed in Camerino from1552 to 1577. His son Francesco continued thepress, in partnership until 1584 with GirolamoStrengari, or Stringari, who then moved toVerona, where he joined the well-known firm ofSebastiano dalle Donne.

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Varium poema. Firmt: Apud Iohannem1580. 4°.

Giovanni Jubar, or Giubar, a Venetian, printedat Fermo from 1580 to 1585, then at Montaltodi Castro in 1586 and 1590, and finally at AscoliPiceno in 1597.

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R O M E , Church of Boniface VIII, Pope. Sextilibri decretalium in concilio Lugdunensiper Bonifacium octauum editi compilatio.[Followed by the Clementinarum constitu-tiones and the Extrauagantes xx. Ioannis xxii.]3 pt. Venetijs: per Baptistam de Tortis, 29January 1505. fol.

This volume, handsomely printed in red andblack, continues the series of editions by thesame printer, of which tbe Library already hasthose dated 1491,1494, three in 1496, and 1500.Baptista de Tortis continued to be one of themajor printers of law books in Venice up till

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RuiNAGi A, Alexander. Carmen de vita SanctaeMaris Magdalenae. Florentice: per MichaeleAngelum Bartholomei, 1535. 4°-

Alessandro Ruinagia of Piacenza (1472-1556)was a prolific author of short speeches andpoems. He was by profession a lawyer. This isthe first work of his to enter the British Library:all of them are rare. The printer Michelangelo,son of the famous Florentine printer Bartolom-meo de'Libri, printed at Siena from 1519 to1526 and at Florence from 1528 to about 1541.Other copies of this work are recorded inBologna University Library and Piacenza B.Comunale.

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SACRO BOSCO, Joannes de. Algorismusnouiter impressum. Venetiis: Impressum perMelchiorem Sessam (^ Petrum de Rauanis,1523. 4«.

The Englishman John of Holy wood (i:.i2oo-C.1250) is best known for his treatise on thesphere, but he also wrote a few minor workssuch as the De arte numerandt or Algorismus.The latter had been printed along with Anianus,Compotus manualis, at Strasbourg in 1488, andby itself at Vienna in 1517 and at Cracow in

1521. The DNB mentions that the Algorismuswas first printed without date or place about1490, but there appears to be no authority forsuch an assertion.

1570/662.

SANCIUS DE AREVALO, Rodericus, Bishop ofZamora. Speculum vite humane. Venetijs: perLazarum de Soardis, IQ January 1513. 4*̂ .

The Speculum vite humane was first publishedby Sweynheym and Pannartz in Rome in1468, and became enormously popular. Othercopies of this edition are in London, Well-come Historical Medical Library; Cambridge,Trinity College; Rome, B. Corsiniana; andVenice BN.

Sander 6510. Essling 1797. Adams R 648.Rhodes, Soardi 87.

SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. [Prediche.—SingleSermons.] Predica dello amore diuino sopra lapassione del Nostro Signore Iesu Christo.Good Friday, 1497. [Translated by CristoforoPeraccini.] Siena: Nicolo di Piero di Guccio daCortona, 1543. 8°.

The first edition of any work by Savonarolaprinted at Siena to be acquired by the BritishLibrary.

S E V E R U S, Sulpicius. Vita Sancti Martini.[With Symeon Metaphrastes, Vita SanctiNicolai.] [Venice: Aldus Manutius{?\ (r.1505.]

4°-Ham 15168. Goff S 832. Brunei, v, col. 322,says that this was probably printed in Venice atthe end of the fifteenth century. It is not nowregarded as an incunable. It comprises the lifeof St Martin and of St Nicolas, the secondpart translated from the Greek by LeonardusJustinianus, and addressed to his brotherLorenzo Giustiniani, Patriarch of Venice.

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Pfxful aquis parat: 6C ucnicnti noiSc ftatutaExbibcc • hxc fumens / corpus / tcrrafcp relincjuit iHie me dcftituunt uires t ncc promere an tuMufa ualet quanrus diua afcendente bratosInter ccelicolas fueric fupcr xtbera plaufus *Et Cbtifti cxcepta quo dexrera magna triumpboInduerit nunquitn perirurzdona coronae •Induta; quis honor: cjuis circum fulgeat ardor /Tu ledor meditare t piatn / nee tollcre mente;Define«quod rauca mibi dicere uoce negatumRcUigiofa tibi fi forte filentia przftent;

BcnedidusOeus*

ICtmpreffuj Florentiar.Per Micbaelelutn Bartboiomei Florentini^Dic

xxyii t Menris Augufti«

Alexander Ruinagia, Carmen de vita Sancice Marice Magdalena. Last page, showing printer'sdevice

S P O N S A L I T I U M . Sponsalitium animae.[Florence: Bartolommeo de^Libri], 20 Sep-tember 1503. 8°.

All that we can infer from the book aboutthe author is that he was a member of theDominican Order, calling himself 'Frater B.'.He addresses his work to a young womannamed Alexandra, who is evidently a nun. Hehas been variously identified as Benedetto diPaolo or Benedetto degli Alessandri. Othercopies are recorded in Florence BN and B.Riccardiana, and Harvard UL. (Mortimer 484.)

Sander 7060 (and Rava, Supplement).

T A G L I E N T E , Giovanni Antonio. Lo presentelibro insegna la vera arte delo excelletescriuere. Vinegia: Pietro di Nicolini de Sabbio,November 1537. 4°.

The famous calligraphy book of Taglienteseems to have been first published in Venicein 1524. The British Library now has nineeditions published between then and 1553.

C.i3i.ff.34.

T A S S O , Ercole. II confortatore. Bergamo:Comm Ventura, 1595. 4°.

Discourses addressed principally to those whoare about to die. Ercole Tasso was a cousin ofTorquato.

1568/4559-

T A S S O , Torquato. Dialogo delle imprese.Napoli: Stamparia dello Stigliola; ad instantiadi Paolo Venturini, [1594.] 4*̂ .

A very little known dialogue by Tasso, in whichthe two speakers are called 'Conte' and 'Fore-stiero Napolitano'. Tasso says in his dedicatoryepistle to Cardinal S. Giorgio that he is imitat-ing Plato. P. Manzi, Annali delta StamperiaStigliola (Florence, 1968), no. 16, records onlythe copy in the National Library of Rome.

1568/6207.

T E S O R O . Libro de abbaco. [By HieronimoTagliente.] Milano: Valerio Meda, 1579. 8°.

First published at Venice about 1530. This isthe latest of five editions now in the Library.

1578/1066.

Thesauro della sapientia. Bressa:Damiano Turlino, 1557. 16*̂ .

An apparently otherwise unrecorded andanonymous devotional work printed at Brescia.

C.iO4.dd.i2.

T H O M A S A Q U I N A S , Saint. Summa cotragentiles. Venetijs: per symonem [Bevilaqua]impensa 1 cura Alexddri Calcedonij, 1501. 4°-

Alexander Calcedonius, a 'merchant' (or book-seller) came from Pesaro, and is found in Venice

T H E S A V R ODELLA SAPIENTIA

EVANGELiqA.

IN BRESS A PERMIANO TVRLINO,

M.D. LYII .

as early as 1496, when he paid for the printingof several editions of works by Aristotle andSt Thomas Aquinas. He owned a particularlybeautiful device showing an angel. He was stillat work in 1506. He employed several Venetianprinters to carry out his commissions.

C.i3i.ff.6.

TuRRECREMATA, Joannes de, Cardinal. Ex-positio in psalterium. Venetijs: JJ Lazaru deSoardis^ 26 January 1502. 8°.

Essling 1374. Sander 7400. Rhodes^ Soardi 24,recording five copies in Italy. The same printerproduced a second edition on 27 April 1513[Rhodes, Soardi 89).

C.i45.e.i5.

VALTELLINA. Li statuti di Valtelina riformatinella cita di Coira nelFanno del Signore,M.D.XLVin. nel mese di Genaro per Ii Mag.Signori comissari a cio specialmente eletti

nella publica Dieta fatta nella medesimacita nell'anno pcedete nel mese d'Agosto.Poschiauo: Delfno Landolfo, 1549- fo': ^^oleaves, the last blank. A~Z G g'̂ . ff. 117-

This book contains an elaborately decorativetitle-page with coats of arms at the foot, devicesand large woodcut initials elsewhere. Theearliest work in Romanscb to be recorded bythe Bibltografia Retoromontscha (Chur 1938) ashaving been printed by Landolf at Puschlaef(Poschiavo) is of 1552, and the next is of 1571.The present book is, of course, in Italian, notRomansch, but may well be the first hookprinted at Poschiavo.

From the Broxbourne Library of AlbertEhrman.

D.E.D.8.

ViCTORius, Benedictus. Opusculum in Tis-beru {i.e. William of Hentisbury] de sensucoposito ac diuiso. Bonome: Ex arte 1 officinaIoannis Antonij de Benedictis, 31 January 1504.

An important and rare work concerningmedieval English philosophy by the doctor ofFaenza, Benedetto Vettori. A. Serra-Zanetti,Varte delta stampa in Bologna nel primo ven-tennio del Ginquecento (Bologna, 1959), no. 518,records the copy in the Biblioteca Comunaledell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, only.

C.104.a.22.

ViNEis, Raimundus de. Vita miracolosa dellaseraphica S. Catherina da Siena. [Transla-ted by Ambrosio Catherino, i.e. LancelottoPoliti.] Siena: jp Simione di Ntccolo ad instdtiadi Iacomo antonio Gataneo Libraro, 1524. 4°.

There were two editions of this work printed atSiena in 1524: one on ioMay and the other on iSeptember. This is the second. The name of theSicnese bookseller Giacomo Antonio Cataneodoes not occur in the British Museum's ItalianSTC of 1958. It seems to be found in the

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ri nella Cita di Coira nelfanno del Signore,'̂ M . D . X L V111. nel mefe di Genaro per

Ii Mac. Signori comillari a do fpecialmente eletti nellapu-blica Dieta fatta nclIamedelTma dta nelFanno pcedete nelmefe d' Aoollo. Et doppo approbati SC confermati per Ii[lluftrifs. Si£;nori dcllc tre Lighe in vn* altra Dieta fatta medefimamcte m Coira nelFanno M. D. X L V1111. nel mefc di Genaro, lie Hnalmeiuc p M. Giorgio Trauerfo eon Faiuto di M.Giacomo Cataneo Dottorede leogi,in quefto

ordine ri Jotti,SL rubricaci fecondo la lor eomill^one,&.' dalU Latina nella volgare lingua tradotti,

a Laudeili Dio,al qualeper GicfuChrifto Simior noftro fia

ooni honorc &Gloria

IN P O S C H I A V O PERDolfinoLandoIfo. M.D.XLIX.

Eccecpbonum, ^Jc^ioeuJumhabitarefratrcsin vnum.

present book for the first and only time. He wasprobably forced out of business quickly by themuch more successful bookseller Giovanni diAlessandro Landi, who continued to mono-polize Sienese bookselling until 1550.

ViTALiS, Janus Franciscus. De diuina trini-tate. Romcs: Apud Marcellum Silber, 7 May1521. 4".

A. Tinto, Silber, no. 266, records only the copyin Venice, B. Marciana. With a very ornamentalwoodcut title-page border, also used in otherRoman books of the period. For Janus Vitalis, anative of Palermo working in Rome, see D. E.Rhodes, 'A Rare Printer at Rome: Ariottus deTrino', British Museum Quarterly., xxxii (1968),pp. 74-5, where (pi. xxiv) the same title-pageborder is illustrated, with the interestingdifference that in the Xenophon printed byAriottus de Trino on i December 1521, thearms at the foot of the page are those of

Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo to whom the book isdedicated; in the book by Vitalis here described,the arms are those of Pope Leo X. Both booksalso contain the curious circular device whichcontains the initials V. V. V. and leaves of ivy,olive, and laurel. In my previous note I said that'it is difficult to think of an interpretation': Inow believe that it may be the personal deviceof Vitalis himself, since he edited the Xenophonand was the author of the book here described.

Zoioso , Benedetto. Rosario della grandeImperatrice de'Cieli, Maria Vergine. Racoltodal R.P.M. Benedetto Zoioso. Venetia: Adinstantia della Confraternita del SantissimoRosario, [1581]. 12°.

The first book acquired by the Library in whichthe Confraternity of the Holy Rosary is thepublisher.

C.i07.df 52.

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