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Parthenice Mariana F. Baptist[a]e Mantuani / ab Iodoco Badio Asce[n]sio familiariter exposita, et nuperrime recognita ; eiusdemq[ue] Apologeticon et carmen votitium ad Diuam Virginem, cum suis elucidatiunculis.

Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516, author.; Badius, Josse, 1462-1535.; Spencer, John, 1718?-1775, former owner.; Burgh, Wilhelmus, former owner.; Brok, Stephen, former owner.; Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, printer.; Bute library, former owner.
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Title
Parthenice Mariana F. Baptist[a]e Mantuani / ab Iodoco Badio Asce[n]sio familiariter exposita, et nuperrime recognita ; eiusdemq[ue] Apologeticon et carmen votitium ad Diuam Virginem, cum suis elucidatiunculis.
Uniform title
Parthenice prima, sive Mariana
Created/published
[Paris] : Venu[n]dantur a Iohanne Paruo commorante in vico Sancti Iacobi sub intersignio Lilij aurei, [ca. 1517]
Description
[8], VIII, CLVI, [2] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Associated name
Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516, author.
Badius, Josse, 1462-1535.
Spencer, John, 1718?-1775, former owner.
Burgh, Wilhelmus, former owner.
Brok, Stephen, former owner.
Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530, printer.
Bute library, former owner.
Note
Date in explicit (leaf v5r): Mil.cccccxiij; date of publication from the state of Jean Petit's device (Renouard 190; Silvestre II, 1009). Cf. Hillard, D. Cat. régionaux des bib. publiques de France, VI, no. 265.

Signatures: A-B⁸, a⁸, b⁶, c-v⁸ (A3 signed a3, i1 and i2 signed I1 and I2, n4 signed m4).

Printed capitals.

Numerous errors in numbering of leaves.

Includes index.
Cited/described in
Pellechet 1763
Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, II, no. 1711
Renouard, P. Badius Ascensius, II, p. 104, no. 6
Copinger 833
Genre/form
Calf bindings (Binding)
Manuscript waste.
Place of creation/publication
France -- Paris.

Call number
INC B56
Folger-specific note
Leaves q8 torn away, and v8 (blank?) lacking. Manuscript verse below inscription "Horatius" on verso of last leaf. Inscription "Stephẽn Brok [et] Niclas̃ Cranishe[r?...?]" on title page, and "Willielm[us] Burgh [...?] Thys byll̃ finis p[er] me[?] Salop[...? for Shrewsbury?]" on verso of last leaf; bookplate "John Spencer Esqr." (Franks 27715?); pencilled inscription "later from Cardiff Castle (Marquis of Bute)." 16th century calf binding, blind tooled panels with the arms of Henry VIII surrounded by a hound, a griffin and 2 angels on the front cover, the combined arms of Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon held by 2 angels on the back cover (Cf. Oldham, J.B. Blind panels of English binders, p. 23, HE3 and HE4); remains of 2 clasps with catches mounted on back cover; fragments of manuscripts in Latin (one of them in different hands with interlinear gloss or corrections and some underlining) used as spine reinforcements; repaired; in a tailored box. Purchased in 1953.