De plurimis claris sceletisqb5s mulieribus opus prope diuinub5s novissime congestum
Contributors: Albertus, de Placentia; Augustinus, de Casali Maiori
Publisher: Opera et ĩpensa Magistri Laurentij de rubeis de Valentia
Published: 1497
Place of publication: Ferrarie ĩpressũ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Christian saints; Women; Martyrs; Biography; Queens
Other titles: De plurimis claris selectisque mulieribus.; De claris selectisque plurimis mulieribus.
Work titles: De claris mulieribus
Notes: Author's name appears in first line of prologue: Prologus fratris Jacobi philippi Bergomẽnsis ..., and in the colophon with the imprint information.

Colophon reads: Opus de claris selectisqb5s plurimis mulieribus a frate Ia. philippi Bergomẽse editum explicit: maxĩa cub5s diligentia reuisub5s et castigatũ per Reueren ... Albertũ de placẽtia et fr̃em Augustinub5s de Casali maiori. ... Ferrarie ...Laurentij de rubeis ... M.cccclxxxxvij ...

Full page woodcuts dated 1493.  Initials.  Of the 171 woodcut ports. some are repeated or only slightly modified.  The author is shown in the woodcut on verso of t.p.

Signatures: Ap4sa-ep8sfp6sg-pp8sqp6srp8ssp6stp8svp6sxp8sy-zp6s.

Some errors in foliation resulting in an additional leaf.  Cf. Besterman.

Indexes: p. [7]-[9]

Hain *2813

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien, 915

Library's copy from Theodore Besterman's library.  Cf. Besterman, T. Art books, p. 41.