Fior de terra sancta noviter impressa.

Accession number: 
PML 44561
Author: 
Castiglione, Girolamo, active 15th century.
Published: 
In la nobile citate de Missina : Expensis nobilis misser Mathio pangratio citatino de la nobilissima citate de Missina. Stampata per Guilielmu[m] Scho[n]berg Alamanu[m] de Franckfordia, In nelanno del n[ost]ro signore idio .M.ccccxcix. A di .vi. del mese
Description: 
[42] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Fellows, 1953.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f4v: Finissi lo Fior de terra sancta. Expensis nobilis misser Mathio pangratio citatino de la nobilissima citate de Missina. Stampata per Guilielmu[m] Scho[n]berg Alamanu[m] de Franckfordia. In la nobile citate de Missina. In nelanno del n[ost]ro signore idio .M.ccccxcix. A di .vi. del mese de Augusto. [Schonberger's device]
Printed in Schonberger's types 2:95G and 3:140G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f⁴: 42 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Blind bearer type visible at the bottom of leaf a1v.
Woodcut of Jerusalem, leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14.2 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century gilt-tooled purple morocco over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Fiore di Terra Sancta

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Giuseppe Martini, inscription (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified owner/dealer (Hoepli or Martini?) inscription, 23 Dec. 1927: "Imp. Temp. 23. XII. 1927" (rear endleaf 2 recto; see also PML 27063); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., as a gift of the Fellows, Feb. 1953.
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