farfel_n06_083_443a

443 A
Heritage
Los Angeles
Feb. '96
$50

Bernardus Claravellensis, Saint (1090-1153)
Opuscula.
Modena: Dominicus Rocociolus, July 8, 1491. 4^0
See #240 Ref: Goff B-363 H 2921 Polain(B) 597 Pr 7197 BMC VII 1062.
GW. 3906 Haebler Italian leaves #26. ??folio 7
Copy: HEHL, LC, WArtGL, BMaw CL, Murich, Augsburg St B.

a-m^8 n^6 o^4. 106 leaves, the 1st blank. 3^a: (30-31) 30 lines. 137x93mm
Cpaital spaces, with guide letters; printed captials I on 276
Contents listed in table on 106^a.
(P1) - Type: 91 G. - Text tyep with ornate capitals. Round-bowled 9 +
wide curved 7. Medium single hyphen, not in regular use
Heavy C used in + after Oct. 1489. In use throughout
- 2nd edition.
Rocociolus - printed until 1506 being succeded by his nephew Antonio who kept the office going until 1521. is first mentioned in teh Aesop of 19 May 1481
(H. 294) pritned at his expense, while he is 1st mentioned
as a pritner on his own account in the Gregorius, Dialogi
of Nov. 10 of the same year. This is followed by 1 tract in
1482 + another in 1483, after which Rocociolus is not heard
from again until his partnership with Miscomni in 1487-9.
From Sept. 1489 to the end of the century his name recurs
in every year except 1493, 1497 + 1499.
-5th pritner in Modena; 1st, Johann Burster, of Kempten,
from Mantova (2nd press).
(Mantua)

84818 HEHL rubricated in red + blue
my leaf a^7 (of 8)
incipit tractus primus de vijs vite sancti Bernardi abbatis
(begins a^2 - ends a^6)
incipit scd's Bernardi de viis vite.
(begins a^6 - ends b^2)