AMBROSIUS, Saint (ca.340-397). Epistolae . - De vocatione . - De aedificatione Mediolani . - De Isaac & anima . - De Fuga saeculi . Edited by Stephanus Dulcinus. Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 1 February 1491. Chancery 2° (297 x 208mm). Collation: π 2 a-q 8 r 4 s 8 t 6 u-x 8 y 6 z 4 & 8 \\j 6 \\a 4 (π1 table, π1r dedicatory letter by Dulcinus to Ludovico Maria Sforza, a1r Epistolae , s8v blank, t1r De vocatione , y4v De aedificatione Mediolani , y6r De Isaac & anima , &8v De Fuga saeculi , \\a4v register). 192 leaves. 40 lines. Type: 5:110R. 4- to 8-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Small wormholes occasionally affecting letters, tear in first two leaves expertly repaired without loss.) Modern brown morocco tooled in blind. Provenance : contemporary marginal annotations in a neat italic hand; traces of seals on flyleaves; Albertus Mettis (17th-century inscription). Second edition of the Epistolae , accompanied by the FIRST EDITION of the final three texts in the volume. HC (Add) *899; GW 1601; BMC VI, 722 (IB. 26062); Goff A-553.
AMBROSIUS, Saint (ca.340-397). Epistolae . - De vocatione . - De aedificatione Mediolani . - De Isaac & anima . - De Fuga saeculi . Edited by Stephanus Dulcinus. Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 1 February 1491. Chancery 2° (297 x 208mm). Collation: π 2 a-q 8 r 4 s 8 t 6 u-x 8 y 6 z 4 & 8 \\j 6 \\a 4 (π1 table, π1r dedicatory letter by Dulcinus to Ludovico Maria Sforza, a1r Epistolae , s8v blank, t1r De vocatione , y4v De aedificatione Mediolani , y6r De Isaac & anima , &8v De Fuga saeculi , \\a4v register). 192 leaves. 40 lines. Type: 5:110R. 4- to 8-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Small wormholes occasionally affecting letters, tear in first two leaves expertly repaired without loss.) Modern brown morocco tooled in blind. Provenance : contemporary marginal annotations in a neat italic hand; traces of seals on flyleaves; Albertus Mettis (17th-century inscription). Second edition of the Epistolae , accompanied by the FIRST EDITION of the final three texts in the volume. HC (Add) *899; GW 1601; BMC VI, 722 (IB. 26062); Goff A-553.
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