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tia00544600
- Text-inc Id:
- tia00544600
- Bod-inc Id:
- A-226
- Headings:
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Altobello
Historia di Altobello e di Re Troiano suo fratello.
- Analysis of content:
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a2r [Historia di Altobello e di Re Troiano suo fratello.] ‘Il libro delle battaglie de li baroni di Franza sotto il nome di lardito e gaiardo giouene Altobello.’ Incipit: ‘[E]terno padre summo creatore | O vera vostra infinita potentia | Dinanzi ali cieli chera to(!) valore . . .’ See Letteratura italiana, II (Torino: Einaudi, 1983), 600. On this edition, see Neil Harris, Bibliografia dell‘“Orlando Innamorato”, 2 vols (Modena, 1988-91), II 43 n. 75.
- Imprint:
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Vicenza: Simon Bevilaqua, de Gabis, 20 Nov. 1491. 4°.
- Collation:
- a–t8.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ia00544600
GW 1586;
H 883;
Pr 7181;
Sheppard 5950.
LCN: 14427724
- Copies:
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A-226(1)
Copy
The title-leaf is hinged and repaired. Woodcut initial E on a2r (not as GW).
Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled faded blue morocco; bound by C. Lewis; on both covers double fillets form a frame; in the corners a floral tool; edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with a foliate stamp; in five compartments on the spine the foliate stamp is repeated; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 206 × 156 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 152 mm.
A manuscript note in Italian, quoting the Catalogo della libreria Capponi (1747), notes a copy of GW 1582 then in the Vatican Library, which is not recorded in GW, and is not now recorded by William J. Sheehan, Bibliothecae apostolicae Vaticanae incunabula, 4 vols (Vatican City, 1997).
Provenance: Purchased for £15. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 3.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.13b.
