Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi — Venice 1485

Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. — (Colophon:) Impressus Venetiis per Andream de Bonettis de Papia. Anno. MCCCCLXXXV. Die.xii.Martii Ioanne Mocenico inclyto principe regnante.

Venice, Andreas de Bonetis, 12th March 1485

First and only edition

Folio (224 x 205 mm). a–z⁸ A⁸ B¹² C–G⁸ H⁶: (248) of 250 leaves, blank B12 present, but blank a1 and H6 not. Printed in two columns. Roman type, blank space for initials with guide letters.

Wormhole in a2-d4, repaired wormtrack in the upper blank margin of E4-F7.  A very few leaves with slight marginal foxing. Near contemporary limp vellum.

Some annotations in a contemporary Italian hand, a few cropped. Crisp paper.  

Front paste-down with bibliographical notes on the famous sale (1769) of Louis Jean Gaignat’s library, lot number 2759, sold at 199 Louisdor, and the catalogue of this sale by Guillaume-François de Bure. On the fly-leaf an early reader wrote: Benedictus qui venit in nomine domine – perhaps referring to Ubertino de Casale.

A few marginal notes in an early Italian hand.

ISTC No.iu00055000; Goff U-55; GW M48799.