Baptista Mantuanus: Parthenice prima sive Mariana.
Commentary by Jodocus Badius Ascensius. Commendatio Parthenices. Apologeticon. Ad beatam Virginem votum post febrim acerrimam.
[Paris]: for Jean Petit, [ca. 1505]
4to. A-B8 a8 b6 c-v8. [8], I-VIII, I-CLVI, [2] leaves.
Woodcut printer's device.
ISTC ib00065000; GW III Sp.339a.; Goff B65; Pell 1765; Moreau I 178: 183.
Dated from the state of the device (Moreau); Goff dates after 1500.
| GIP number: | B5 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BC4-c.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The second of six works bound together. Bound with: (1) Baptista Mantuanus, Contra poetas impudice loquentes. [Paris]: for Jean Petit, 1502; (3) Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice secunda, sive Catharinaria. [Paris]: for Jean Petit, [after 1500] (B6); (4) Baptista Mantuanus, Parthenice tertia. Paris: for Jean Petit, 1503; (5) Baptista Mantuanus, Georgius. Paris: Josse Bade, 1509; (6) Baptista Mantuanus, Cecilie viraginis romanae & merito castitatis & fortitudinis in martyrio incomparabilis agon. Paris: Josse Bade, 1509. |
| Variants: | A1r, line 1: “... Mariana F. Baptiſte ...” not as Pellechet “... Mariana. F. Baptiste ...”; a1r, line 1: “F. Baptiſtæ ...” not as Pellechet “F. Baptiste ...”. |
| Provenance: | John Henry Bohn (ca. 1757-1843), bookseller, London: sold book to Richard Heber. Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector: book stamp “Bibliotheca Heberiana” and Heber’s acquisition note “Bohn March 1820 s18” on front free endpaper; lot 3754 in Bibliotheca Heberiana, Pt. 2 (London: Sotheby, 1834); sold for £0.1.6; see the priced British Library copy of the Heber sale catalogue (shelfmark RAR 002.092 Heb), which also confirms that Heber himself paid £0.18.0 for the book. Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hamilton collection donation, 1878. |
| Binding: | 17th-century parchment with fore-edge cover extensions; a remboîtage; centre of spine decorated with a block stamp in blind which extends over the joints onto both boards; a triple blind fillet decorates top edge of covers and spine; a hole for a tie visible at top edge of both covers; titled horizontally in ink on fore-edge “MANTVANVS” and on spine “Bapt. Mantuani Poemata varia comm. Ascensii”. Size: 209 x 148 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 205 x 141 mm. |
| Annotations: | 19th-century price “16/-” and number "1649" in pencil on front endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
