Opera noua contemplatiua
Subtitle: p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratto de le figure del testamento vecchio; le quale figure sonno verificate nel testamento nuouo con le sue expositione ...
Contributors: Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923, former owner; Fillon, Benjamin, 1819-1881, annotator; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Novamente stampata.
Published: 1530
Place of publication: Uinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Specimens; Block books; Biblia pauperum
Other titles: Opera nova contemplativa; Biblia pauperum.
Notes: Woodcut text and plates by Giovanni Andrea Valvassori.

Four issues are described in Schreiber's Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure ... au XVe siècle, v. 4 (1902) p. 105-113. This copy resembles issue d in having E5 and H5 printed in round characters, but differs in that the Madonna cut at end is not surrounded by a border, but has side borders only, apparently corresponding in this respect to Schreiber's issue c.  Cf. also V. Masséna, prince d'Essling, duc de Rivoli, Livres  ̉figures vňitiens, pt. 1, v. 1 (1907) p. 201-211; C. W. Dyson Perrins, Italian book-illustrations and early printing, 1914, no. 251; T. de Marinis, Anciens livres à figures italiens, 1925, no. 136.

An imitation of the Biblia pauperum.

Signatures: A-H⁸ (H8 blank and wanting).

Rosenwald 28

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

LC copy has armorial book-plate of Clarence S. Bement, with ink annotations by B. Fillon on fly-leaf.