Meditationes vitae Christi.

BONAVENTURA (Ps.-)

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Lot description

Venice, M. de Bonellis de Monteferrato, 14 December 1497

8vo: [3]-90 (= 62)-[1 bl.] ff., 32 ll. (occasional staining and thumbing).

Old Italian blind-stamped leather over wood, flat spine (somewhat worn, front joint split, spine def.). Good copy.

Later incunable ed. of the Meditations on the Life of Christ, often ascribed to the Franciscan saint Bonaventure (1221-1274). Woodcut on title-page, full-page woodcut on verso. Printed in gothic type, in 2 cols. Rubricated in yellow. Ref. ISTC ib00899000. - GW 4758. - Goff B-899. - Polain 4090 (this copy). - BMC V:505. - BSB-Ink B-684. - Not in CIBN. Prov. "Bibliothecae Collegij S. Barnabae Mediolani" (ms. entry on title). - [Georges Petit].