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Savonarola, Girolamo
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Savonarola, Girolamo
- [Compendium revelationum] Revelatio de tribulationibus nostrorum temporum: de reformatione universe de ecclesie autore deo et de conversione Turcorum et infidelium ad fidem nostrum... Paris: Guy Marchant [for Jean Petit], 6 August 1496
- Paper
Chancery 4to (203 x 137mm.), 38 leaves (last leaf blank), a-d8 e6, 38 lines, gothic type, 3-4 line initial spaces, metalcut printer's device on title-page (BMC's device III), full-page woodcut on verso of title with heading "Le maure de sales" (with a blind impression of this woodcut on verso of final blank leaf), late eighteenth-century English red morocco-backed calf gilt, extremities slightly rubbed
Provenance
John Walker, formerly F.T.C.D. (Fellow of Trinity College Dublin), nineteenth-century bookplate with crest; Grant & Bolton, booksellers, Dublin, label on inside front cover
Literature
Goff S238; HC 14337; Oates 2961; GW M40622
Condition
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Savonarola's tract was originally published in Italian in August 1495, with Savonarola's own Latin version appearing shortly after in October; within the space of a year, there had been three editions in Italian and four in Latin. Described as "a masterpiece of self-dramatisation" (Weinstein, Savonarola, 2011, p.168), it gives an account of Savonarola's career and his visions since his arrival in Florence in 1490. Its publication was timed as a response to the Pope's summons of Savonarola to Rome in July 1495.
ISTC records only 14 copies of this edition, two of which are located in the UK. The woodcut of a moor on the verso of the title-page represents the Herald of Death and occurs in editions of Marchant's Compost et calendrier des bergers.
The tools on the binding are reproduced in fig. 5.23 of D. Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (London, 2005) which contains tools used in the years 1740-1790.
ISTC records only 14 copies of this edition, two of which are located in the UK. The woodcut of a moor on the verso of the title-page represents the Herald of Death and occurs in editions of Marchant's Compost et calendrier des bergers.
The tools on the binding are reproduced in fig. 5.23 of D. Pearson's English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (London, 2005) which contains tools used in the years 1740-1790.