Epistole deuotissime
- Responsibility
- de sancta Catharina da Siena.
- Uniform Title
- Correspondence
- Imprint
- [Venice] : Stampato in la inclita cita de Venetia in casa de Aldo Manutio Romano, a di xv. [i.e. xix?] septembrio [19 Sept.] 1500.
- Physical description
- [10], ccccxiiii [i.e. 411], [1] leaves : 1 port. ; 31 cm.
- Collection
- Aldine Press Collection
- Incunabula Collection
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380.
- Contributor
- Alzano, Bartolommeo da, editor.
- Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, publisher.
- Dominicans Hinkley, England, former owner.
- Dominicans Woodchester, England, former owner.
Contents/Summary
- Included work
- Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380. Orazioni Selections. 1500.
Subjects
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1500
- Note
- Edited by Bartolommeo da Alzano.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Dedicatory letter of Aldus to Cardinal Franc. de Piccolomini dated xix. Sept. M.D.
- The verso of leaf ci is numbered cii; numbers clxix and ccxxxii are omitted in foliation.
- Versos of leaf ccxviii and final leaf blank.
- Woodcut initials; full page ill. (port.) on verso of l. [10] (1st sequence).
- Signatures: *¹⁰ a-y⁸ A-G⁸ H¹⁰ I-N⁸ O¹⁰ P-FF⁸.
- "Queste sono alcune orationi facte per essa sacra Vergine Sancta Catharina da Siena": l. cccxci-ccccxiii (CC8-FF6).
- Referenced in
- Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 562 (IB.24504)
- Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C-281
- Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 6222
- Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum, 4688
- Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00281000
- Renouard, A.A. Annales de l’imprimerie des Alde, 1500, no. 2 (p. 23)
- Note
- Stanford copy 1 (RBC): Binding: gilt calf, rebacked; red edges. Binder's title: S. Catarina da Siena Epistole. Ald. 1500. Provenance: F.F. Praed. de Woodchester (bookplate); Dominicans of Hinckley, Leicestershire (inscription); royal bookplate with lion & unicorn and mottos: Honi soit qui mal y pense; Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos.
- Related Work
- Epistole devotissime.
- S. Catarina da Siena epistole.
- Location
- Italy -- Venice, -- publication place.