Lot n° 1176

BAPTISTA MANTUANUS O.CARM Parthenice tercia diuaru(m). Margarite Agathes Lucie et Apolonie agonas continens [Cum argumentis Jod. Badii Ascensii].  after 31 Oct. 1503 Peter Os van Breda, 4to, mod. half vellum, marbled paper on covers, [44] ff. (a few...

Estimation : 1500 / 2000
Adjudication : 2000 €
Description
marg. stains). Exc. copy partly uncut.
Very rare Zwolle ed. of these long poems on Saints Margaret, Agatha, Lucia and Apollonia by the Italian Carmelite poet Battista Spagnuoli (1447-1516). Woodcut ill. of St. Prisca on title and at the end, and of St Ursula on g8r. Woodcut papal arms of Julius II on f7v. Gothic type. Capital spaces. Title rubricated. Extensive contemp. annotations of 1st 17 ff. 
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