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ILLUSTRATED INCUNABULA
Cassandra FIDELIS
or Fedele, Learned Woman, born at Venice about 14^5, where
she died in 1558.
126 Oratio pro Bertrucio Lamberto. N. p. d. (Nuremberg, Peter Wag-
ner, ca. 1489).
4to. Goth, letter, 33 lines, 8 unn. leaves, without sign. With a
fine full-page cut on title, probably by Albredit Diirer, and a large
woodcut capital on 1. 1 v. Vellum. Frs. 750.—
Hain* 4553- Proctor 2257. Brit. Mus. Cat. II, p. 463. Schreiber V’, 3675- Mother 455.
The very handsomely designed woodcut on the title is considered one of the
earliest works ofDtirer (cf. Weisbadi, Der junge Diirer). The cut shows a poet
receiving the doctor’s beret at the hands of a crowned female figure symbolizing Poetry.
The book itself is also of great interest. It is edited by Conrad Celtes, the
German poet laureate, and contains an oration held in the public by Cassandra Fedele
at the age of thirteen. It is known, that she was famous for her extraordinary learning
and her Latin eloquence as a little girl.
Good copy with fine impression of the cut.
No copy in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
See Reproduction on opposite page.
Baptista FULGOSUS
or Fregoso, Poet, Doge of Genova from 1478—83.
127 Anter os. Milan, Leonardus Padiel, 1496.
4to. Rom. letter, 29 lines, 80 unn. leaves with sign, (the last blank).
On verso of title a full-page allegorical woodcut. Modern blind
tooled black calf. Frs. 2000.—
Hain (not seen) -Cop. 7393. Proctor 5599. Voullieme, Berlin 3104. Kristeller,
Lombard. Graphik, p. 37, 38, 114.
A very curious book of the utmost rarity. It contains two dialogues
against love (Avr’Spo?) written in Italian language interspersed with Latin passages; many
authorities are cited on margins e. g. Aristoteles, Plato, Paulus apostolus, Suetonius, Pe-
trarca. Apuleius, Terentius, Vergilius, Seneca, Augustinus, Macrobius, Ovidius, Dante,
Cicero, Juvenalis, Plautus, Tibullus, Boccaccio, Avicenna, etc.
The allegorical woodcut on verso of title is an elaborate work of the Mi-
lanese school. It represents the knightly author who, while writing, observes four
lamenting women (Inopia, Zelotypia, Derisio, Luctus); in the background Amor bound
on an arbor which bears four labels (Matrimonium, Oratio, Negotia, Abstinentia). To
the left death rises from a coffin (Inmatura), to the right a devil (Mors aeterna) carries
a human shape perforated by an arrow.
This interesting book is finely printed by Leonardus Pachel, a German
printer, at Milan; for him and his business see Haebler, Die deutsdien Drucker des
XV. Jahrhunderts im Auslande, p. 47—54- The present book is mentioned on page 52.
Very fine copy with large margins; there are a few underlinings which are
hardly visible.
No copy in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
See Reproduction, page 84.
KATALOG Nr. 220 DES BUCH- UND KUNST-ANTIQUARIATES
ILLUSTRATED INCUNABULA
Cassandra FIDELIS
or Fedele, Learned Woman, born at Venice about 14^5, where
she died in 1558.
126 Oratio pro Bertrucio Lamberto. N. p. d. (Nuremberg, Peter Wag-
ner, ca. 1489).
4to. Goth, letter, 33 lines, 8 unn. leaves, without sign. With a
fine full-page cut on title, probably by Albredit Diirer, and a large
woodcut capital on 1. 1 v. Vellum. Frs. 750.—
Hain* 4553- Proctor 2257. Brit. Mus. Cat. II, p. 463. Schreiber V’, 3675- Mother 455.
The very handsomely designed woodcut on the title is considered one of the
earliest works ofDtirer (cf. Weisbadi, Der junge Diirer). The cut shows a poet
receiving the doctor’s beret at the hands of a crowned female figure symbolizing Poetry.
The book itself is also of great interest. It is edited by Conrad Celtes, the
German poet laureate, and contains an oration held in the public by Cassandra Fedele
at the age of thirteen. It is known, that she was famous for her extraordinary learning
and her Latin eloquence as a little girl.
Good copy with fine impression of the cut.
No copy in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
See Reproduction on opposite page.
Baptista FULGOSUS
or Fregoso, Poet, Doge of Genova from 1478—83.
127 Anter os. Milan, Leonardus Padiel, 1496.
4to. Rom. letter, 29 lines, 80 unn. leaves with sign, (the last blank).
On verso of title a full-page allegorical woodcut. Modern blind
tooled black calf. Frs. 2000.—
Hain (not seen) -Cop. 7393. Proctor 5599. Voullieme, Berlin 3104. Kristeller,
Lombard. Graphik, p. 37, 38, 114.
A very curious book of the utmost rarity. It contains two dialogues
against love (Avr’Spo?) written in Italian language interspersed with Latin passages; many
authorities are cited on margins e. g. Aristoteles, Plato, Paulus apostolus, Suetonius, Pe-
trarca. Apuleius, Terentius, Vergilius, Seneca, Augustinus, Macrobius, Ovidius, Dante,
Cicero, Juvenalis, Plautus, Tibullus, Boccaccio, Avicenna, etc.
The allegorical woodcut on verso of title is an elaborate work of the Mi-
lanese school. It represents the knightly author who, while writing, observes four
lamenting women (Inopia, Zelotypia, Derisio, Luctus); in the background Amor bound
on an arbor which bears four labels (Matrimonium, Oratio, Negotia, Abstinentia). To
the left death rises from a coffin (Inmatura), to the right a devil (Mors aeterna) carries
a human shape perforated by an arrow.
This interesting book is finely printed by Leonardus Pachel, a German
printer, at Milan; for him and his business see Haebler, Die deutsdien Drucker des
XV. Jahrhunderts im Auslande, p. 47—54- The present book is mentioned on page 52.
Very fine copy with large margins; there are a few underlinings which are
hardly visible.
No copy in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
See Reproduction, page 84.
KATALOG Nr. 220 DES BUCH- UND KUNST-ANTIQUARIATES
