[I]Ncomincia la tabula sopra il primo libro de la uite de sancti patri per numero de charte
Contributors: Cavalca, Domenico, d. 1342; Belcari, Feo, 1410-1484; Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439; Miscomini, Antonio, fl. 1476-1494, printer; Moschus, John, ca. 550-619; Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: ... Impresse da maestro Antonio di Bartolomeo da Bologna, in Uenetia
Published: 1476
Place of publication: Venice, Italy]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Christian saints; Early works to 1800; Fathers of the church; Biography; Hermits
Other titles: Incominciano le uite de sancti padri per diuersi eloquentissimi doctori uulgarizate; Ncomincia la tabula sopra il primo libro de la uite de sancti patri per numero de charte; Visio Tnugdali. Italian.; Visione di Tantolo.; Prato spiritual.
Work titles: Vitae patrum. Italian
Notes: Sixth century collection of legendary biographies of saints, built from the base of biographies and legends on Egyptian hermits already compiled in Greek (Apophthegmata Patrum or Sayings of the Fathers). The Latin collection contains translation or original writings of St. Jerome, Rufinus, Sulpicius Severus, Cassianus and others. This text underwent enrichments and interpolations.

Title from opening words of table, leaf [1]2.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: [1-9]¹⁰ [10]⁸ [11-12]¹⁰ [13]¹² [14-25]¹⁰ [26]¹² [27⁸] (leaves [1]1, and [27]1,8 are blank).

Text printed in two columns; capital spaces.

The text includes translations into Italian of the Visio Tundali (Visione di Tantolo) and of the Pratum spirituale (Prato spiritual) of John Moschus; the Pratum spirituale is translated by Feo Belcari after the translation from the original Greek into Latin by Ambrosius Camaldulensis Traversarius.

LC copy has initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes in red and blue; some initials with pen-drawn decoration.  All blanks wanting; blank bound in between leaves [1]10 and [2]1.  Opening initial, leaf [2]1 in gold and colors.

Goff H-225

Hain-Copinger 8617

GW M50950

BM 15th cent., VII, p. 1135-1136

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih002250000

Translated by Domenico Cavalca.