Beltrame da Ferrara, Specchio de prudenza, Venice, 1505, modern tooled calf

Beltrame da Ferrara

Specchio de prudenza. Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 16 April 1505

4to (193 x 137mm.), a-i⁸ k¹⁰, woodcut initials, modern calf tooled in period style over wooden boards, last leaf slightly soiled with repair at foot

RARE. We have not been able to trace any auction records of this edition. Beltrame da Ferrara was a monk from the Gerolomite congregation of San Piero in Pisa in the early fifteenth century.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ib00303200 (listing 3 copies, entry based on an incomplete copy); Edit16 4975; A. Sorbelli, "Lo 'Specchio della prudenza' di Frate Beltrame da Ferrara (GW 3807) presunto incunabulo", in Miscellanea bibliografica in memoria di Don Tommaso Accurti (Rome, 1947), pp.205-213