Comincia il prologo o veramente epistola dil beato Hieronymo sopra di la Bibia dignamente vulgarizata p[er] il clarissimo religioso duon [sic] Nicolo de Mallermi venetiano & dil monasterio de Sancto Michele di Lemo abbate dignissimo. ... .
Jerome,Saint,-419 or 420.
Gilbert,de La Porrée,approximately 1075-1154.
Malermi, Niccolò,1422-translator.
Fonte, Bartolommeo,1445-1513,translator.
Scotto, Ottaviano,-1498,printer.
Fenton family,former owner.StEdNL
Fu impresso q[ue]sto volume ne lalma patria de Venetia : Per Octauiano Scotto da modoetia ... ,
MCCCCLXXXI [1481]
Title from caption at incipit on leaf a2 recto.
Imprint from colophon on leaf U5 verso, which reads in full: A laude de Dio & de la sua matre Vergine Maria & de la martire sancta Catarina fu impresso q[ue]sto volume ne lalma patria de Venetia per Octauiano Scotto da modoetia regna[n]t Sisto quarto po[n]tifice maximo & Zoane Mocenico inclito Duce de Venetia : ne gli anni de la salutifera incarnatione del figliol de leterno & omnipote[n]te Dio. MCCCCLXXXI.
Edited and adjusted to the Venetian dialect by Niccolò Malerbi (or Malermi, 1422-1481/2).
Text in two columns, with running titles.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: a¹² b-z¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ [rum]⁸ A-T⁸ V⁶ X¹².
First and last leaves are blank.
Initials supplied in black ink.
Occasional marginal annotations.
Hieronymus, [Letter addressed to] Paulinus presbiter, "Epistola dil beato Hieronymo sopra di la Bibia", a2r-a4v; printer's register, a5r; Biblia, in Italian, "Bibia", a6r-U5v, including Oratio Manasse, p1v-p2r, Esdra II (III), p8v-q4r, and [Pseudo-]Aristeas. Ad Philocratem de lxx interpretibus, "El libro daristea de settantadue interpreti", translated into Italian by Bartholomaeus Fontius (Bartomeo Fonzio), x5v-y3r; colophon, U5v; Legenda de Sancto Ioseph, "Vita del sa[n]ctissimo & vergine perpetuo Joseph", U5v-U6v; table of contents, X1r-X11v.
BM 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
Goff
GW
Hain-Copinger
ISTC
Oates
Edoardo Barbieri, "Le Bibbie italiane del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento : storia e bibliografia ragionata delle edizioni in lingua italiana dal 1471 al 1600". Milano : Editrice bibliografica, c1992,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Anonymous armorial spade shield bookplate on front pastedown: possibly Fenton. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Old parchment.
Joseph, Saint
Italy Venice.