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Tractato dellhumilita / co[m]posto p[er] frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dellordine de Predicatori.

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498, author.; Miscomini, Antonio, active 1476-1494, printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Tractato dellhumilita / co[m]posto p[er] frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dellordine de Predicatori.
Uniform title
Dell'umiltà
Created/published
Impresso in Firenze : Per Antonio Mischomini, adi ultimo di giugno 1492.
Description
[28] p. ; 18 cm (4to)
Associated name
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498, author.
Miscomini, Antonio, active 1476-1494, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Imprint from colophon (leaf b6v).

Signatures: a⁸, b⁶ (a2 unsigned).

Capital spaces, with guide letters on leaves a2r and a3v.

Woodcut below title.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, S-276
BM 15th cent., VI, p. 641 (IA.27199)
Copinger-Reichling 5285
Genre/form
Manuscript waste.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Florence.

Call number
INC S253
Folger-specific note
Folger copy lacks title page with woodcut (description from BM 15th cent.).

In a later vellum binding; manuscript fragments used as leaves reinforcement.

Purchased in 1918 (no. 683 in the Sotheby sale catalog of W.J. Leighton, Nov. 1918).

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