Mantua

Paul Butzbach, Mantoue 29 April 1481, 190 x 270 mm (7 1/2 x 10 5/8 ”), [280] ff [sig a10, b6,c4,d-z8, A-J8, K6, L12], stiff vellum

 

First Italian edition of the Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra’s (1270-1349) famous moral commentary, the third edition of this work. The first was published in Cologne in 1478. The text, in Latin, used for this edition is the one revised by Ludovico della Torre (? – 1365) who added the alphabetical index at the end, preceded by his Epistola pro operis emendatione et pro ipsius Tabula miro artificio ordinata, dated December 1480 and addressed to Francesco Raimondo of the San Apollonio monastery near Brescia.
Manuscript re

First edition, one of 150 copies containing an original lithograph by Giulio Turcato it signed and justified, deluxe edition.
Signed autograph Giulio Turcato the painter and engraver Jacques (Castex).
Illustrated book of the artist's works reproductions.