De immortalitate anime in modum dialogi vulgariter incipit prologus lege feliciter
Publisher: Joannes Philippus de Lignamine
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Rome
Language: ita; lat
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Soul; Early works to 1800; Immortality
Other titles: De immoralitate anime in modvm dialogi vvlgariter incipit prologvs lege feliciter
Work titles: Dell'immortalità dell'anima
Notes: Title from incipit, leaf [2] recto; uniform title from Incunabula short title catalogue.

Imprint from Incunabula short title catalogue.

Signatures: [1-4¹⁰]; unsigned.

30 lines; Haebler, type I*:125R; capital spaces.

Leaf [1] blank.

Not in Goff or Proctor.

Includes table of contents on leaves [39] verso-[40] recto.

Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ic00078700

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 05948

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 4297

Reichling, D. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum, 449

Pellechet, M. Catalogue général des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, 3185

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, page 30 (IB.17377)

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), entry C-42

Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia, 2392

In Italian; incipit and explicit in Latin.

Manuscript monogram on leaf [39] recto following explicit: JPH [Giuseppe Martini alleges this to be the monogram of the printer, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine].

Inscription on vellum flyleaves: Iste liber est meus Lorentius Lomelinus di Genoua; front flyleaf dated 1662.

Inscription on rear vellum flyleaf in a different hand than Lomelinus': Caucito[?] 1662 ce die 22 giugno.

Inscription in the hand of Giuseppe Martini: Acquistato da T. de Marinis, Firenze, 4 febbr. 1925; two sheets tipped on on front endpapers with extensive bibliographic annotations by Martini.

Illustrated bookplate: Ex libris Sergio Colombi; with Columbi's manuscript annotations on front endpapers.

Illustrated bookplate: Ex libris liber Libero Marzetto.

Manuscript annotations including some minor corrections to the text, breaks indicated between words and emphasis put on certain letters for purposes of reading aloud; manicules; manuscript table of contents on verso of blank leaf [1] indicating that a Bartolomeo de Maraschis' "Della preparazione alla morte" was originally bound (or intended to be bound[?]) as the third title.

Manuscript signatures a-d, catchwords, and running title; manuscript foliation in red beginning on leaf [3]: 1-7, 9-20, 23-39 (some errors in foliation between leaf 23 and 29, foliated as follows: 23, 22, 21, 24, 25, 28, 27, 26); correctly foliated in pencil.

Decoration: leaf [2] recto, 5-line red and blue pen-flourished initial; 3-line pen initials chiefly in red (some in blue); chapter headings chiefly rubricated in red.

Number 1 of 2 titles bound together; bound with Domenico Cavalca, Pungi lingua, (Rome, 1472).

Bound in leather over wooden boards; evidence of bosses on corners and center of covers; modern reback and endpapers; ruled vellum flyleaves from earlier binding bound in; vellum strips used as sewing supports in the center of gatherings; illegible manuscript inscription (partially missing) on upper rear cover; in CMI case.