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De patientia 17 August 1499
| 22.1 x 16.5 x 4.4 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1071377.a
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Chancery paper 4to. 117 leaves foliated in Arabic numerals by a fifteenth-century hand. Printed signatures: a-q8 r4 s8 t6.
This is a brief encyclopaedic treatise authored by Carmelite monk and humanist poet Battista Spagnoli of Mantua (Latinised as Baptista Mantuanus). Published in Brescia in 1497, it presents the acceptance of pain as a way of purification and spiritual elevation. It also contains one of the earliest European printed references to America: in discussing the extent of the law of Christ, Spagnoli mentions lands that had been unknown to Strabo, Ptolemy, Pomponius Mela, and Pliny, but which had recently been found through the agency of the kings of Spain [this part has been amended from the Peter Harrington catalogue description of another edition of De patientia] Spagnoli often wrote about corruption in the Church, and contributed many hagiographies. As his books were often used in schools in England, he is referenced in some important sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers, including William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser.
Binding description
Goatskin on boards sewn on five cords, decorated with gilt fillets on board edges and turn-ins. Spine with gold silk endbands. Bound by McKensey.Provenance
Acquired by William IV, 1830-37.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Measurements
22.1 x 16.5 x 4.4 cm (book measurement (conservation))
Markings
annotation: an early 16th-century hand has annotated the book throughout, dating some of their notes to 1509 (title page recto) and 1512 (last leaf verso). They include epitaphs, cross-references, signposts and comments. The same hand has copied one of Petrarch's letter which is here entitled De contemptu mundi on the verso of the last leaf, dated 3 December 1512. [title page; throughout]
Other number(s)
ISTC : Incunabula Short Title Catalogue – ISTC ib00079000Alternative title(s)
De patientia / Baptista Mantuanus.
Place of Production
Basel [Switzerland]
