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Philippi Beroaldi De felicitate opusculum.

Beroaldo, Filippo, 1453-1505, author.; Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.; Bradstreet, Thomas, binder.; Bazalieri, Caligola de', printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Philippi Beroaldi De felicitate opusculum.
Uniform title
De felicitate
Created/published
[Bologna] : I[m]pressoria Caligulae de Bazaleris Bononiae i[n]cude egregiis his caracteribus excussu[m], anno Salutis millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo no[n]agesimo qui[n]to Cale[n]dis Aprilibus [1 April 1495] ...
Description
[40] p. ; 22 cm (4to)
Associated name
Beroaldo, Filippo, 1453-1505, author.
Hoskier, H. C. (Herman Charles), 1864-1938, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Bradstreet, Thomas, binder.
Bazalieri, Caligola de', printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Reprinted from the ed. of F. de Benedictis, 1 April 1495, the date in the colophon being unchanged. Cf. BM 15th cent.

Imprint from colophon (leaf e4r).

Signatures: a-e⁴ (c2 unsigned).

Capital spaces, with guide letters on leaves a2r and a3r.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-483
BM 15th cent., VI, p. 836 (IA.28985)
GW 4133
Genre/form
Annotations.
Manicules.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Bologna.

Call number
INC B419
Folger-specific note
Early manuscript notes in brown ink, marks, brackets, manicules, underlining, and a few drawings; a few corrections in text and filling of unevenly printed letters in same ink; signature, lacking on leaf c2r, has been added by hand in another ink. Inscriptions "Marchionj Badensj, primogenito", and "321" in brown ink on title page; in margins of dedicatory letter to Jakob, Margrave of Baden (1471-1511) and of the "Endecasyllabon ad Germaniam" at end of the book, several notes, the last one reading "Dño meo marchionj"; underlining in red ink on t.p., and addition in same ink of "2c[us][?]" at end of the inscription of the name of the dedicatee; inscription on front flyleaf "H.C. Hoskier Dec. 1902" (no. 245 in the Sotheby sale catalog of his library, June 1908); his provenance and binding prices (?) have been erased. In a half morocco binding (Bradstreet). Bookplate of W.T. Smedley; purchased in 1924.

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