Bartholomaeus de Rinonico – OPUS CONFORMITATUM- Nice postincunable, handcoloured copy – 1513

(FIRST EDITIONS; THEOLOGY, COLOURED COPIES; RARIORA) Bartolomeus de RINONICO (BARTOLOMEO DA PISA) (?-1401?)Opus. Auree & inexplicabilis bonitatis & continentie. Conformitatum scilicet vite Beati Fra. ad vitam d. nostri Iesu Christi ... (Colophon: in aedibus Zanoti Castilionei, Mediolani, 1513)§ Small folio (298x205); [12], 229 leaves (of 230, missing last, leaf, blank), signature A12, a-z8, [et]8, [cum]8, [rum]8, A-B8, C5 (missing C6, blank). Slightly later vellum, title page printed in red and black, ornamental woodcut frame and large vignette depicting Saint Francis and Jesus with the cross. On leaf I large woodcut vignette (repeated elsewhere) and frame composed by small vignettes depicting the live of the Saint; full-page woodcut depicting the tree of conformities; woodcut initials, printer’s mark at the colophon. Some contemporary hand-coloured pages Several marginal annotations in an ancient hand. A nice , fascinating copy on strong paper. Third edition. “According to Prosper Marchand (Dictionnaire hist., I, 3), the first edition of the Liber conformitatum is a Venice edition, undated, a copy of which must exist in the Imperial Library in Vienna, but which is not cited by Panzer, Hain or Brunet. The second edition is that of Milan, Gotardo da Ponte, 1510, in-fol.” (portail.biblissima.fr, translate; this site however, as... lees verder bij Catawiki