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ITALIAN BOOKS. IFlorence; 1477.
a number of flaming cherubim and seraphim encircle him, Beneath,
are the figures engraved on the annexed plate. The ladder extends
to the feet of our Saviour: a mountain, with Christ crucified, is in the
back ground. A label extends from the arm of the man, with a Latin
inscription, ‘ Levavi ocvlos meos i motes vnde veniat avxiliam
michi avxilivm mevm a domino/ Beneath is the fiend, as in the
plate. The ladder is chained to the mountainous rock in the back
ground. Many more inscriptions are to be seen upon the ladder—of
which the accompanying fac-simile, taken by myself, is presumed to
convey a tolerably just notion.
On the recto of the ensuing leaf:
f Inconmincia ellibro intitulato monte sancto didio Com-
posto damesser Antonio daSiena Reuerendissimo uescliouo
difuligno della congregatione de poueri lesuati. Capi-
tulo. Primo.’
On the next leaf but one ensuing, or on the recto of the third from the
eopper-plate, is sign. a. i., which runs to eight; b, has the same
number; but is only marked b. i, b. ii. The signatures continue in
eights, (except i, with nine*) but are irregularly printed, as far as
r. iiii.: on the recto of which is the colophon :
fFinito elmotesco didio pme Nicolo dilorezo dellamagna
FLORENTIE. X. DIE MENSIS SEPTEMBRIS
ANNO DOMINI. M.CCCCLXXYII.
The reverse is blank. The fuller pages contain from 33 to 36 lines.
We now proceed to describe the remaining copper-plates. On the
reverse of sign. n. viii. is another fine engraving of a whole length of
our Saviour, as in the second annexed plate ; surrounded, in the ori-
ginal, by cherubim and seraphim. On the recto of p. vij. is a copper-
plate of a tri-mouthed fiend eating men and women; of which a
fac-simile is given in the Cat. de la Valliere, vol. i. p. 255. This book
is printed in a full size Roman type, similar to the larger type of
the Dante of 1481, and to that of the Berlinghieri: vide pp. 64, 108.
There are neither numerals or catchwords. Laire advises the reader
* Signature I v seems to liave been designed for a copper-plate, as the text is curtailed
of its usual length.
ITALIAN BOOKS. IFlorence; 1477.
a number of flaming cherubim and seraphim encircle him, Beneath,
are the figures engraved on the annexed plate. The ladder extends
to the feet of our Saviour: a mountain, with Christ crucified, is in the
back ground. A label extends from the arm of the man, with a Latin
inscription, ‘ Levavi ocvlos meos i motes vnde veniat avxiliam
michi avxilivm mevm a domino/ Beneath is the fiend, as in the
plate. The ladder is chained to the mountainous rock in the back
ground. Many more inscriptions are to be seen upon the ladder—of
which the accompanying fac-simile, taken by myself, is presumed to
convey a tolerably just notion.
On the recto of the ensuing leaf:
f Inconmincia ellibro intitulato monte sancto didio Com-
posto damesser Antonio daSiena Reuerendissimo uescliouo
difuligno della congregatione de poueri lesuati. Capi-
tulo. Primo.’
On the next leaf but one ensuing, or on the recto of the third from the
eopper-plate, is sign. a. i., which runs to eight; b, has the same
number; but is only marked b. i, b. ii. The signatures continue in
eights, (except i, with nine*) but are irregularly printed, as far as
r. iiii.: on the recto of which is the colophon :
fFinito elmotesco didio pme Nicolo dilorezo dellamagna
FLORENTIE. X. DIE MENSIS SEPTEMBRIS
ANNO DOMINI. M.CCCCLXXYII.
The reverse is blank. The fuller pages contain from 33 to 36 lines.
We now proceed to describe the remaining copper-plates. On the
reverse of sign. n. viii. is another fine engraving of a whole length of
our Saviour, as in the second annexed plate ; surrounded, in the ori-
ginal, by cherubim and seraphim. On the recto of p. vij. is a copper-
plate of a tri-mouthed fiend eating men and women; of which a
fac-simile is given in the Cat. de la Valliere, vol. i. p. 255. This book
is printed in a full size Roman type, similar to the larger type of
the Dante of 1481, and to that of the Berlinghieri: vide pp. 64, 108.
There are neither numerals or catchwords. Laire advises the reader
* Signature I v seems to liave been designed for a copper-plate, as the text is curtailed
of its usual length.