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Text-inc Id:

tia01205450

Headings:

Auctoritates ad misericordiam inducentes

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Auctoritates ad misericordiam inducentes. ‘Quedam auctoritates ad misericordiam inducentes extracte ex Biblia. Et primo ait Christus in Evangelio sancti Luce.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ate elemosinam, et ecce omnia munda sunt vobis. Iterum: date elemosinam, facite vobis saculos qui non veterascunt ...’ [a4r] Explicit: ‘... Quid prodest homini si universum mundum lucreretur, anime autem sue detrimentum patiatur. Aut quam dabit homo commutationem pro anima sua.’
2. [a4r-v] [Italian verses] Incipit: '[C]io che nui habiamo za fu daltrui. | Dechi sera nol sapiamo nui' [2 distichs].
3. [a4v] Colophon: ‘Honor et gloria omni operanti bonum. Mantue feliciter die xv Junii M.cccc.lxxxvi.’ [Woodcut: the entombment with inscriprion; quotation below the image] ‘Miserere nostri Ihesu benigne, qui passus es clementer pro nobis. | Demostenes ad Alexandrum Magnum: sola est clementia quae nos Deo reddit equales.’

Imprint:

Mantua [Printer of Auctoritates ad misericordiam] 15 June 1486 4° Woodcut, differing from the edition of 23 Dec. 1485 by the addition of a two-line printed text on the front of Christ's sarcophagus. See G. Schizzerotto, Libri stampati a Mantova nel Quattrocento (Mantua, 1972), 55 and plates; Latin extracts from the Bible and Fathers, with two Italian couplets. Secundo folio: auri condere.

Collation:

[a⁴]. Text printed in red and black; enlarged initials in red.

References:

Source: Venezia N ISTC: ia01205450