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tit00117200

Text-inc Id:
tit00117200
Bod-inc Id:
T-060
Headings:
Tesoro Spirituale Tesoro spirituale coll'Epistole ed Evangeli istoriati (ed. Giovanni Pietro Ferraro) [Italian and Latin].
Analysis of content:
  1. a1r [Title-page.] ‘Tesauro spirituale cum le epistole et euangelii historiate cum le meditatione de sancto Bonauentura'.
  2. a1v Ferraro, Giovanni Pietro: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘Ho habuto illustrissimo et excellentissimo signore sempre et uoluntieri in lanimo mio questo studio . . .’ The author claims that he found this text in Spain; the content of this letter is also found in his dedicatory letter of Le Signerre's edition of Specchio dell'anima, 24 Mar. 1498, a work translated from Spanish by Ludovicus Besalo; see BMC VI 789.
  3. a1v ‘Nota .xxv. dignitate de dio omnipotente'. Incipit: ‘Dio Homo Vita Mortalitate | Creatore Creatura Veritate Falsitate . . .’ 13 lines divided into four columns.
  4. a2v Tesoro spirituale coll'Epistole ed Evangeli istoriati. Edited by Giovanni Pietro Ferraro. ‘Sequentia del sancto euangelio secondo Luca dicesi il di della anunciatione della uergine Maria'. Incipit: ‘[I]n quel tempo fu mandato da Dio langelo Gabriel nella prouincia di Galilea . . .’ It contains evangelical and biblical readings and prayers, generally in Italian but occasionally also in Latin.
  5. d6r ‘Deuote meditatione sopra la passione del nostro signore Iesu Christo cauate et fundate originalmente sopra sancto Bonauentura cardinale del ordine minore sopra Nicolao de Lira etiamdio sopra altri doctori et predicatori approbati'. Incipit: ‘[A]ppropinquandose il termine nel quale la diuina prouidentia ab eterno hauea constituito de prouedere ala humana generatione . . .’ NO EDITION
Imprint:
Milan: Guillermi Le Signerre Fratres, 19 Mar. 1499. Folio.
Collation:
a–l6 m8. Woodcuts and woodcut initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: it00117200 Pr 6073; Sander 2700; Sheppard 5033. LCN: 14098965
Copies:
  1. T-060(1) Copy Wanting b6, i6, and k1,6. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind- and gold-tooled (fillet) calf; bound by C. Murton; gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns. Size: 269 × 198 × 15 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 185 mm. Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834. SHELFMARK: Douce 166.