Natalibus, Catalogus sanctorum, Venice, 1506, modern calf

Petrus de Natalibus

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus. (Venice: Bartolomeo Zani for Lucantonio Giunta, 1506)

folio (290 x 205mm.), title-page printed in red with red woodcut printer's device, first opening of text with both pages within woodcut border and with woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials and illustrations, with final blank leaf, modern burgundy calf tooled in period style, occasional light staining, repaired wormhole at foot of g8-h2, lower margin of i2 restored with loss of a few letters, l3_6 browned, binding slightly rubbed, spine faded

This is the second edition of Natalibus's catalogue of saints, with a preface by Antonio Verlo of Vicenza, the editor of the first edition of 1493.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 39199; Sander 4940

PROVENANCE:

Capuchin stamp at foot of title-page