pseudo-BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS. Modus bene vivendi [Italian:] Sermoni Vulgari...necessarii alben uiuere . Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, 27 January 1495/6. Chancery 4° (206 x 133mm). Collation: π 4 a-p 8 (π1r title, woodcut, sermon by the translator, π3r tabula, a1r text, p8v colophon, 3 woodcut devices). 124 leaves. 30 lines and foliation. Type: 1:110R. One woodcut (76x111mm) depicting Bernard presenting a book to nuns, 3 woodcut devices of Pacini, woodcut ornamental initials. (Fo. h1.8 reversed in binding, tear into text in k6 repaired without loss, very small hole in a few lvs. with loss of a few letters.) Modern russet morocco blindstamped with single fillets, t.e.g. Second edition in Italian, printed for the publisher Pacini, "the most energetic and careful of Florentine publishers" (Kristeller Early Florentine Woodcuts , xviii). Almost all of Pacini's books were issued with illustrations by highly skilled artists, and the present edition is no exception. The title cut showing Bernard presenting his book to a group of nuns, for whom the sermons were written, first appeared here. H *2898; GW 4053; BMC VI, 683 (IA. 27810); Goff B-418; Sander 956; IGI 1544.
pseudo-BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS. Modus bene vivendi [Italian:] Sermoni Vulgari...necessarii alben uiuere . Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, 27 January 1495/6. Chancery 4° (206 x 133mm). Collation: π 4 a-p 8 (π1r title, woodcut, sermon by the translator, π3r tabula, a1r text, p8v colophon, 3 woodcut devices). 124 leaves. 30 lines and foliation. Type: 1:110R. One woodcut (76x111mm) depicting Bernard presenting a book to nuns, 3 woodcut devices of Pacini, woodcut ornamental initials. (Fo. h1.8 reversed in binding, tear into text in k6 repaired without loss, very small hole in a few lvs. with loss of a few letters.) Modern russet morocco blindstamped with single fillets, t.e.g. Second edition in Italian, printed for the publisher Pacini, "the most energetic and careful of Florentine publishers" (Kristeller Early Florentine Woodcuts , xviii). Almost all of Pacini's books were issued with illustrations by highly skilled artists, and the present edition is no exception. The title cut showing Bernard presenting his book to a group of nuns, for whom the sermons were written, first appeared here. H *2898; GW 4053; BMC VI, 683 (IA. 27810); Goff B-418; Sander 956; IGI 1544.
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