Details

Fingerprint:

heas a-ra a-lo xima (C) 1487 (Q)

Subjects:

Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint.

Form/Genre:

Legends.
Incunabula.

Place of Publication:

Italy Florence.

Notes:

Imprint from ISTC. "To date this work with any precision is probably not possible. Dino himself, after having printed in Naples (with different types than are here present), was active in Florence from 1481 to 1497, but his use of the type of the Legienda began in 1487 ..."--Alden.
Chancery quarto. Leaf a2r: 29 lines; area of text: 163 x 86 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. One woodcut illustration (112 x 78 mm.) on title leaf: Saint Catherine of Alexandria, crowned, with book, palm and wheel, within decorative border.
Signatures: a-b⁸.

Local notes:

Leaf size: 198 x 135 mm.
Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
Presented to the Penn Libraries by Francis Campbell Macauley.
Penn Libraries copy: woodcut title illustration partially hand-colored in brown(?) ink.
Penn Libraries copy bound in full straight-grained morocco (now red); boards ruled in gold; title stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers.
Penn Libraries copy: leaf a4 torn and mended across central portion; two small tears mended in fore-edge margin of leaf b8; back free endpapers detached; front free endpapers wanting.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Penn Chronology:

1487 (ca.)

Cited in:

Goff L-124
GW M1748310
ISTC ic00278200
Alden, J. La legienda di Sancta Caterina. (Library Chronicle 16.2 (1950): 87-89)

Contributor:

Francesco, di Dino, active 15th century, printer.
Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

249358102