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tii00177000
- Text-inc Id:
- tii00177000
- Bod-inc Id:
- I-027
- Headings:
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Isaac, Rabbi
Della perfezione della vita contemplativa [Italian].
- Analysis of content:
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a1v [Introductory letter addressed to] Jacomo da Parma, Prior of S. Salvator, Venice. Incipit: ‘Perche, padre venerando, non solamente a noi medemi siamo nati ma (como dice Platone) . . .’
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a2r Abbate Isaac de Syria (Isaac, Rabbi): Della perfezione della vita contemplativa. Incipit: ‘[L']anima laquale ama dio in solo dio ha riposo . . .’
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i5r [Table of contents.]
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i6r [Colophon.]
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i6v [Editorial note.] Incipit: ‘Venuta e in luce questa angelica opera . . .’
- Imprint:
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Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, 1500. 8°.
- Collation:
- a–h8 i6. On a1r a woodcut of Rabbi Isaac; woodcut initials.
- References:
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Source: Bodleian
ISTC: ii00177000
CR 3324;
Goff I‑177;
BMC V 452;
Pr 5103;
CIBN I‑63a; Essling 1248; Sander 7739; Sheppard 4242-3.
LCN: 14437035
- Copies:
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I-027(1)
First copy
Wanting b1-5.
Binding: Nineteenth-century marbled paper boards.
Size: 159 × 109 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 153 × 100 mm.
Provenance: Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1849), 26.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 6.38.
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I-027(2)
Second copy
Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century parchment; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 152 × 102 × 16 mm.
Size of leaf: 145 × 95 mm.
Bibliograpical note (post 1720) in Italian on the verso of the front endleaf, commenting on the rarity of this edition: ‘Gli Accademici della Crusca citarono questo libretto manuscritto, ignorando forse che vi fusse a stampa, onde sembra che gli esemplari di questa edizione debbano essere di somma rarità. (Fu ristampato nel 1720)'.
Provenance: Engraved Italian(?) eighteenth-century armorial book-plate: azure, in chief a wreath and in base a coronet, between two lions combatant.
Thomas Crofts (1722-1781); initials ‘T. C.' on the book-plate; sale (London: Paterson, 7 Apr. 1783), p. 38, lot 780, and inscription on the book-plate: ‘Sold at Crofts for 1s 6d’.
Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838); sale, Dec. 1804; inscription on the verso of the front endleaf: ‘Da Ponte's Sale, Dec. 1804. d6'.
Alessandro, Count Mortara (†1855).
Purchased from Count Mortara; see Alessandro Mortara, Biblioteca Italica (1852), 48.
SHELFMARK: Mortara 137.
