FEDERIGO DA VENEZIA (f. 14th century). Commentum in Apocalypsim (with title: Apocalypsis cum glosis Nicolai de Lyra). Rome: [Printer of the ‘Apocalypsis', ?Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) ?Sixtus Riessinger], c.1467-1468]. A book of great rarity and importance: the first book to have been published in the vernacular in Italy (G. Crupi, Gli incunaboli italiani in lingua volgare: preliminari di una ricerca , 2012, p.41). This is the first separate edition of the Apocalypse in Italian, one of the earliest books to be printed in Rome. Although attributed in the book itself to Nicolaus de Lyra, the Commentum is in fact attributed to the Dominican friar Federigo da Venezia (or Veneziano, or de Renoldo) who accomplished it in 1364 (A. Luttrell, in Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 27-28, 1964-65, pp.57-65). ‘Sixtus Riessinger and Ulrich Han have both been suggested as printers. The type-face has the same dimensions as Han's 1468 Cicero’ (ISTC). Similarities have been noted also with the edition of Bonaventura’s Legenda maior Sancti Francisci , also in Italian vernacular, published in the same year, which, after T. E. Marston ( The first book printed in Italian? ‘The Yale University Library Gazette’, 45, No. 4), was long believed to hold the priority between the two. ABPC/RBH show no record at auction in the past forty years. ISTC if00052700; BMC IV 143;Hain 9383 = 9384; C 3715; Goff J225; Bod-inc J-151; Sheppard 3176, 3177; IGI VI 5216-A; GW M12937; Olschki, Monumenta Typographica , 53, 1903, n. 355. ISTC finds only 4 copies in the US (Harvard, The Morgan, Huntington, Williams College) and 3 in the UK (BL, Bodleian, Manchester). Folio (272 x 173mm), 137 leaves (of 176: wanting ff.1, 60-70, 73, 75, 76, 78, 81-90, 111-120, 149, 158) (waterstaining, mostly to the margins, some occasional marginal wormholes). 19th-century quarter calf, spine filleted and lettered in gilt, marbled boards. Provenance : occasional early marginalia in Latin and Italian – 19th-century notes on rear free endpaper - Tammaro De Marinis (1878-1969, Italian bookseller, bibliographer and bibliophile: letter addressed to him tipped inside the volume).
FEDERIGO DA VENEZIA (f. 14th century). Commentum in Apocalypsim (with title: Apocalypsis cum glosis Nicolai de Lyra). Rome: [Printer of the ‘Apocalypsis', ?Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) ?Sixtus Riessinger], c.1467-1468]. A book of great rarity and importance: the first book to have been published in the vernacular in Italy (G. Crupi, Gli incunaboli italiani in lingua volgare: preliminari di una ricerca , 2012, p.41). This is the first separate edition of the Apocalypse in Italian, one of the earliest books to be printed in Rome. Although attributed in the book itself to Nicolaus de Lyra, the Commentum is in fact attributed to the Dominican friar Federigo da Venezia (or Veneziano, or de Renoldo) who accomplished it in 1364 (A. Luttrell, in Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 27-28, 1964-65, pp.57-65). ‘Sixtus Riessinger and Ulrich Han have both been suggested as printers. The type-face has the same dimensions as Han's 1468 Cicero’ (ISTC). Similarities have been noted also with the edition of Bonaventura’s Legenda maior Sancti Francisci , also in Italian vernacular, published in the same year, which, after T. E. Marston ( The first book printed in Italian? ‘The Yale University Library Gazette’, 45, No. 4), was long believed to hold the priority between the two. ABPC/RBH show no record at auction in the past forty years. ISTC if00052700; BMC IV 143;Hain 9383 = 9384; C 3715; Goff J225; Bod-inc J-151; Sheppard 3176, 3177; IGI VI 5216-A; GW M12937; Olschki, Monumenta Typographica , 53, 1903, n. 355. ISTC finds only 4 copies in the US (Harvard, The Morgan, Huntington, Williams College) and 3 in the UK (BL, Bodleian, Manchester). Folio (272 x 173mm), 137 leaves (of 176: wanting ff.1, 60-70, 73, 75, 76, 78, 81-90, 111-120, 149, 158) (waterstaining, mostly to the margins, some occasional marginal wormholes). 19th-century quarter calf, spine filleted and lettered in gilt, marbled boards. Provenance : occasional early marginalia in Latin and Italian – 19th-century notes on rear free endpaper - Tammaro De Marinis (1878-1969, Italian bookseller, bibliographer and bibliophile: letter addressed to him tipped inside the volume).
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