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Description

Signatures: A⁸ B⁶ a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ 2A-V⁸ X⁶.

Imprint from colophon.

Colophon on X5v reads: Impressum Mediolani per Magistrum Leonardum pachel. Anno Domini.Mcccc.lxxxxiii .die.xxi.Maij.

Additions by Domenico Ponzoni.

Includes the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, edited by Bernardino de' Busti.

Printed in two columns with 58 lines to a full column.

Includes 3 woodcuts (metalcuts?) of the Virgin and Child on black or white backgrounds, and the Annunciation, repeated throughout the book.

Ornamental woodcut initials.

Woodcut printer's mark on X6v with the monogram LP.

Leaves b3 and b4 are signed a3 and a4 respectively, c2 is signed c3, n1 is signed l1, x2 is signed x1, R2 is signed R5 and S1 is signed S2.

Errata on X6v.

Includes index.

Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01333000.

Indexed in: Goff B-1333.

Features

Notes in Latin in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century, on title page (A1r).

Notes in Latin in black ink manuscript, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century, on the recto of the back free endpaper.

Ocassional marginal annotations and underlinings in black ink manuscript, seventeenth- to nineteenth-century.

Leaf numbers added in black ink manuscript, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century, to the top middle of rectos up to leaf 98 (l6r).

The upper outer corner of leaf k6 has been mended using a leaf from another book.

Some water damage and significant staining.

Bindings

Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Italian binding of full dark brown calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with an identical design comprising a border and frame of triple fillets. Inside the frame is a repeating pattern of stylised foliage and in the central panel are three blind-stamped ornaments, a central large lozenge and two smaller tools either side, with fleurons at each corner. The spine has three raised bands with diagonal single fillets in each panel forming a cross. Holes in the upper and lower covers suggest that the book was once fastened shut with ties or clasps. Written on the head-edge in indistinct ink manuscript : ?Pro [...] vncvs toti. There is some damage to the head of the spine and endband. Size: 206 x 145mm. Leaf size: 201 x136mm.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript at the head of the title page (A1r): Sum ego D. Benedicti Cunei...; the name appears again in Italian at the foot of the page: Benedetto Cuneo ... di San Giorio with date 12 luglio 1668.

Indistinct inscription in black ink manuscript at head of A2r, possibly: Ex libris Franc[isc]i [...] Canonici.

Written in black ink manuscript at the base of A2r: Victorius Bertini nepos d. Francisci felicis pronepti [...] Cuneo 1790.

Written in black ink manuscript at the base of A2r: Augustinus Bertini D[omin]i Victorii Bertini Nepos 1833.

Written on the back pastedown in black ink manuscript : Bibliothèque du Château de La Plagne. P. Lacave La Plagne. This is the signature of Paul Lacave Laplagne (1881-1982).

Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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