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in text "optima senectute spud Bergomuy cissalpine gallie civitatem"
"De sancto alexandeo hic comemnat."

One of the finest illustrated books of the Italian
Renaissance. All woodcut material appears in this ed.
for the 1st time. No artist has been identified, but
more than one Ferrsrese hand is likely to have been
responsible for the portraits.
Type 105 G large square text type, mostly with medium capitals.
Q is seperate. Peculair + very small loop. bold
single sloping hyphen. in use 1497-99.
De Bestaice Sfortia cap. clxxvIII fo. clxiiii cap. primum
HEHL begins De Maria virgine ends De Damisella -f0.clxvii
(84-790) De Eva Capiultimu] (clxxxiii) Trivltia z iii (Trivalzie)
my woodcut appears on n ii F0 xcvi + is not repeated
9/5 De Sancta Grata virgine
folio capitulum cviii total 172 folio in the Volume
95- n i before - Cancta Affra cxii Martyr. AD 304 8/5, Augsburg.
97 - n iii after - Sancta halena constantini matre cxiiii to AD 330 8/18 mother of Constantine the Great.
ends De Sancta Semiguda virgie clxxxi
ipatrice henrici ipatoris vxore
De Damisella Trivclia virguncula Mediolanense
- one of the most beautiful of the illust. works of the
15th C. The 1st full page woodcut depicts the author
presenting his work to Beatrice of Naples (2nd wife
of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary) to whom it
is dedicated
175 woodcuts including 2 full page ones)
Sold for L52.10s
This colume of the histories of famous women is not the familiar set
Written by Boccaccio, but a series chosen + described by J. P. Foresti,
an Augustinian, who was born near Bergamo in 1434 + was
successively prior at Imola + Forli.
index - Grata virgo Bergomenais. F0 96 xcvi
text begins Grate matrona 7 pudicissime (via) go genere 7 dignitate infignis
sed admiradis virtutibus 7 sanctitate insignior:

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