Folengo, Commentaria, Venice, Heirs of Aldo, 1546, nineteenth-century binding with fifteenth-century vellum liturgical manuscript leaf

Folengo, Giovanni Battista. Commentaria in primam d. Ioannis epistolam, Io. Baptista Folengio monacho Mantuano auctore. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1546

Folengo’s commentary on the Epistle of John. Rare.

8vo (159 x 97 mm). Roman and italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *⁸ **⁴ A-T⁸ V¹⁰: 174 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Stray spots.)

binding: Nineteenth-century binding (164 x 103 mm), using a fifteenth-century vellum leaf from a liturgical manuscript.

provenance: Unidentified owner, early inscription at foot of title, obliterated — G.A. Leban, Trieste, blue inkstamp “Biblioteca G.A. Leban | Trieste” on title-page (nineteenth- or twentieth-century) — Aste Bolaffi Turin, 22 June 2021, lot 467. acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2022. references: UCLA 347; Renouard 135/1: Edit16 19353; USTC 830125