farfel_n03_160_209

209
Sept 85
Dr. Eichenberger
Bienwil am See
SF - gifr
(190)-$70
[Foresti] Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo (1434-1520)
De claris selectisque mulieribus. Chancey
Faurara: Laurentis de Rubeis, de Valentia, 29 April 1497 f0
Ref: Goff J204, HC (+Add) 2813, BMC VI 613 Graesse I, 341
Brunet I, 787. Pollard, Fine Books 140 IGI 5071 Otto Schafer 186 308:205mm
See #147 Cop: HEHL, PML (Woodcut only.) F0 XCVI nii
Edited by Albertus d ePlacentia + Augustinius de Casaldi Maini.

176 leaves, 7-176 numbered F0 III-CLXX. the numbers CLIX,
CXXII being duplicated. 7a: 451, headline + foliation,
237(244, 245)x145mm.
Types: 105 G text; 81 G (mixed with sorts from 63 G) marginalia,
table on 4a + 4b; 105 R (capitals only) foliation.
Marginalia. Woodcuts. Capitals (2.3, Lombards) + borders
(2a, 3a).
2 large cuts + 56 cuts 116 repeats (65 3 x 72 0 mm) of famous women making
172 by repetition ... but 7 cuts fo Italian ladies at the end
of the book ... are not repeated, + ... have such strongly
marked characteristics that they are probably copies of
genuine portraits. ( Cat. of Library of J. P. Morgan - Early Printed
Books Vol II #382)

Laurentius de Rubies completed an Avenoes, Colliget on 5 Oct.
1482 + then is not heard from aagain as printer until Dec.
1489. He died im 1522, but appears to have ceased
printing in 1499.
- 2 large woodcuts + 172 woodcut portraits (116 repeats) of
famous women.
The work recounts the lives of women famous in history +
mythology, each accompanied by a woodcut portrait. This is
one of the great monuments of Italian Renaissance wood engraving.
(172 woodcut portraits (including 116 repeats)