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Florence; 1477-] MONTE SANCTO.
with satisfaction. It must also be observed that the latter, in his Bibl.
Mcigliabech. vol. i. col. 317-318, has well described this work; calling
it * Editio rarioribus bibliothecarum cimeliis adnumeranda.’ The
Abbe Rive, in a note in his Chasse aux Bibliographes, p. 365, &c. lias
given some desultory account of it, in his tediously-systematic abuse
of De Bure. He tells us that the Duke de la Valliere obtained it
from the library of M. Jackson of Leghorn, who gave only 31 livres
10 sous, for it; and that it was sold at the Valliere sale for 610 livres : the
original velvet binding liaving been taken off for a morocco one. The
author of the work itself, was Antonio da Siena, surnamed Bettini.
This work is divided into three parts. The first part treats of The
Mount of Chuist, and has 115 chapters: the second, of The Glory
of Paradise, and has 15 chapters: the third, of The Punishments
of Hell, and contains 7 chapters. An engraving precedes each of
these parts. On tlie recto of the first leaf, we read thus :
[S]Oramario et brieue dimostratione diquanto si con-
tiene inquesto libro detto monte sancte didio : Compilato
et composto daldeuoto docto seruo di yhesu CristOj frate
Antonio dasiena pouero yhesuato Alpresente Reuerendis-
simo ueschouo difulgino Nel quale si dichiara qualsia ii
fine pfecto 8c sommo delfidel cristiano : 8cc.
At the bottom of the following page, or reverse of the same leaf,
: AMEN:
SEGYITANO ECAPITOLI ET PRIMA:
Then a table of three leaves: on the recto of the third, at bottom—
: FINXT TABVLA PER NICHOLAVM :
: FLORENTIE :
On the reverse of this third leaf, whiclx is the fourth from the
beginning, is a large copper-plate, from a part of which the subjoined
fac-simile is taken. At top, there is a fine wliole length figure of our
Saviour, three inches high, with elevated arms and hands : the drapery
of this figure is extremely tasteful :* a glory surrounds his head, and
* Mr. Ottley has made a fac-simile of it in his valuable work upon Thc Iiistory cf
Engraving.
Florence; 1477-] MONTE SANCTO.
with satisfaction. It must also be observed that the latter, in his Bibl.
Mcigliabech. vol. i. col. 317-318, has well described this work; calling
it * Editio rarioribus bibliothecarum cimeliis adnumeranda.’ The
Abbe Rive, in a note in his Chasse aux Bibliographes, p. 365, &c. lias
given some desultory account of it, in his tediously-systematic abuse
of De Bure. He tells us that the Duke de la Valliere obtained it
from the library of M. Jackson of Leghorn, who gave only 31 livres
10 sous, for it; and that it was sold at the Valliere sale for 610 livres : the
original velvet binding liaving been taken off for a morocco one. The
author of the work itself, was Antonio da Siena, surnamed Bettini.
This work is divided into three parts. The first part treats of The
Mount of Chuist, and has 115 chapters: the second, of The Glory
of Paradise, and has 15 chapters: the third, of The Punishments
of Hell, and contains 7 chapters. An engraving precedes each of
these parts. On tlie recto of the first leaf, we read thus :
[S]Oramario et brieue dimostratione diquanto si con-
tiene inquesto libro detto monte sancte didio : Compilato
et composto daldeuoto docto seruo di yhesu CristOj frate
Antonio dasiena pouero yhesuato Alpresente Reuerendis-
simo ueschouo difulgino Nel quale si dichiara qualsia ii
fine pfecto 8c sommo delfidel cristiano : 8cc.
At the bottom of the following page, or reverse of the same leaf,
: AMEN:
SEGYITANO ECAPITOLI ET PRIMA:
Then a table of three leaves: on the recto of the third, at bottom—
: FINXT TABVLA PER NICHOLAVM :
: FLORENTIE :
On the reverse of this third leaf, whiclx is the fourth from the
beginning, is a large copper-plate, from a part of which the subjoined
fac-simile is taken. At top, there is a fine wliole length figure of our
Saviour, three inches high, with elevated arms and hands : the drapery
of this figure is extremely tasteful :* a glory surrounds his head, and
* Mr. Ottley has made a fac-simile of it in his valuable work upon Thc Iiistory cf
Engraving.