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tic00281000

Text-inc Id:
tic00281000
Bod-inc Id:
C-120
Headings:
Catharina Senensis Epistole (CCCLXVIII; ed. Bartholommeo de Alzano) [Italian].
Analysis of content:
  1. *1r [Note on the editor and privilege.] Incipit: ‘Sappia ciascuno nele cui mano uerranno queste epistole . . .’
  2. *1v Manutius Romanus, Aldus Pius: [Letter to] Franciscus Todeschini Piccolomini. Aldo Manuzio editore I 31-2; see M. H. Laurent, ‘Alde Manuzio l'Ancien, éditeur de S. Cathérine de Sienne', Traditio, 6 (1948), 357-63.
  3. *2r [Maconi], Stephanus: ‘Epistola' [addressed to] Thomas Antonii de Senis (Tommaso di Antonio da Siena detto Caffarini) OP. Incipit: ‘[F]rate Stephano da Siena priore . . . Ho receputo la uestra lettera con desiderio . . .’ Dated 26 Oct. 1411. See Augusta Theodosia Drane, The History of St Catherine of Siena and Her Companions, 2 vols (4th edn, London, 1915), I 338-44, and Alfonso Capecelatro, Storia di S. Caterina da Siena e del papato del suo tempo (Florence, 1858), 441.
  4. *8r ‘Inventario de le epistole del presente volume'.
  5. *10v [Woodcut.]
  6. a1r Catharina Senensis: Epistole [CCCLXVIII]. Edited by Bartholommeo de Alzano. Catharina Senensis, Le Lettere, ed. Misciatelli and Tommaseo; Catharina Senensis, Epistolario, ed. Theseider, vol. 1, and esp. at pp. lxv-lxx; Catharina Senensis, Epistolario, ed. Misciatelli. 353 letters; see Letters of St Catherine, trans. Noffke, vol. 1, 15-17.
  7. CC8r Catharina Senensis: Orazioni [scelte]. Catharina Senensis, Le Orazioni, ed. Giuliana Cavallini, Testi Cateriniani, 4 (Rome, 1978).
  8. FF6v Nastagio [Guido] Da Monte Alcino: [Laude di S. Caterina.] ‘Poema'.’ Incipit: ‘[O] inuentiua mia pigra, che fai'. Capecelatro 465-9, with variant incipit.
  9. FF7v [Pius II]: ‘Memoria quotidiana beatae Catharinae virginis Senensis'. Incipit: ‘In primis uesperis antiphona. Ad sedes regni faciat transire superni . . .’
  10. FF8r [Colophon.]
Imprint:
Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, ‘15' [i.e., not before 19] Sept. 1500. Folio. Letter dated 19 Sept. 1500. The colophon reads ‘a di xv. Septembrio'.
Collation:
*10 a–y A–G8 H10 I–N8 O10 P–Z AA–FF8. One woodcut; woodcut initials; see H. D. Saffrey, ‘Les images populaires de saints dominicains à Venise au XVe siècle et l'édition par Alde Manuce des “Epistole” de sainte Catherine de Sienne', Italia medioevale e umanistica, 25 (1982), 241-312.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00281000 GW 6222; HCR 4688; Goff C‑281; BMC V 562; Pr 5575; Essling 1230; Hillard 595; IGI 2587; Rhodes 524; Sander 1821; Scapecchi, ‘Annali', 37; Sheppard 4669-70. LCN: 14837296
Copies:
  1. C-120(1) First copy Wanting leaf FF8 (with the colophon), supplied in a more recent impression. Leaf C2 is inserted from a different copy. Binding: Eighteenth-century half morocco; the spine gold-tooled. Size: 310 × 215 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 300 × 198 mm. On C2r an early marginal note in Italian. Provenance: George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 395; purchased in 1821 £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 4, and the annotated sale catalogue. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2R 2.11.
  2. C-120(2) Second copy Leaf FF8 backed. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled blue morocco; marbled pastedowns. Size: 291 × 210 × 55 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 191 mm. Occasional early marginal notes. Provenance: Alessandro, Count Mortara (†1855). Purchased in 1852. SHELFMARK: Mortara 1244.
  3. C-120(3) Third copy Not in Sheppard. Binding: Parchment. Size: 322 × 220 × 70 mm. Size of leaf: 312 × 215 mm. Provenance: Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); armorial book-plate on front pastedown; accession no. ‘R 394'; purchased in 1946 from Davis & Orioli for £30. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman. SHELFMARK: Broxb. 19.8.
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