Epistole [et] Euangelii [et] Lectioni vulgari in lingua toschana
Epistolae et Evangelia
Bible
Epistles. Italian. 1495
Morgiani, Lorenzo de',
active 1490-1500
printer
Pacini, Piero,
active 1495-1514
printer
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,
1864-1958
former owner
Petri, Johann,
active 1472-1498
printer
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
text
Incunabula-Italy-Florence-1495
it
1495
monographic
Florence
Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini
27 July 1495
ita
[1], ii-cxxii, [2] leaves. woodcuts: illus., initials. 27.4 cm. (fol.)
This devotional book in Italian ('the language of Tuscany'), published in 1495 by Piero Pacini da Pescia (active, circa 1495-1514), is considered the greatest Florentine illustrated book of the 15th century. It contains 144 large woodcuts, all but eight original to this text, 24 small images of saints and prophets, and a series of 14 different border styles. The large number of images, along with the quality of the designs and execution, make this work a treasure of Florentine design and one of the truly important sources for the study of the Renaissance woodcut. The title leaf is one of the most striking of the period and reflects the influence of Florentine painting on woodcut composition. This influence is also visible in the large woodcuts, where the styles of the artists Donatello, Alessandro Botticelli, and Domenico Ghirlandaio can be identified. In addition to compositional format, the woodcuts exhibit convincing representations of the human form in motion and nearly always succeed in focusing the attention of the viewer on the dramatic action of the Gospel story. This volume is one of two known copies of the book. This copy is from the Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress. World Digital Library.
LC copy imperfect: leaf vii wanting; several leaves repaired. DLC
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
LC copy: Provenance: C.W. Dyson Perrins (bookplate). DLC
Italy
Florence
Incun. 1495 .B57
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.0298
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Gospels
47044050
hdl:loc.rbc/rosenwald.0298
DLC
981026
20230117182352.0
9287173
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