Lot 520 , Savonarola, Girolamo, (1452-1498) [De simplicitate Christianae vitae.], Libri fratris Hieronymi de ferraria ... de simplicitate Christiane vite., [Paris]: Venundantur ab Ioanne Paruo Henrico iacobi & ipsorum impressore A

° Savonarola, Girolamo, (1452-1498) [De simplicitate Christianae vitae.]
Libri fratris Hieronymi de ferraria ... de simplicitate Christiane vite.
[Paris]: Venundantur ab Ioanne Paruo Henrico iacobi & ipsorum impressore Ascensio. [Colophon:] impressum est Parrhisiis in chalcographia Ascensiana, tertio Calendas Martias .M.D.X. ad calculum Romanum [1510 n.s.].
8v0: A–G8 H4.
Printed in Paris by Josse Badius for himself, Jean Petit, and Henry Jacobi in London.
Signature pattern: ‘$’–‘$iiij’.
Catchword pattern: none.
Types: Rot40 (92mm); Rot69 (62mm).
Initials: 13.
Lombards: 11.0.
Inventaire chronologique 1510, no. 192.
Renouard, Badius, iii, 245.
STC 21799.6; ESTC S95053.
Imprimeurs parisiens, ii, 137.
[IS000730] C.111.bb.2.
Note:
26 editions were published between 1510 and 1985 in three languages and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
Two loose sections but apparently intact; bound in fragments of a service-book with musical notation and a small piece of a German deed of c1470; worn title and library number on spine.

Ownership inscription Sum Thomæ Nidermarij 1594 (I am the property of Thomas Neidermayer, 1594
Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Stift Heiligenkreuz; English: Abbey of the Holy Cross) is
Thomas Neidermayer appears between 1583 and 1595 as a member of the Cistercian monastery of the Holy Cross or Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna Woods. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world. He died at Pfarrverweser in Mönchhof on 10 February 1600.
Florian Watzl, Die Cistercienser von Heiligenkreuz (Graz, 1898) 54

Ownership stamp (Ad Bibl. Acad. Land.) was used by the Library of the University of Munich between 1800 and 1826

The text of the colophon displays minor differences from that in the BL catalogue (above), with the additional words hoc opus and Anni salutis.

Gorringes are grateful to Christopher Whittick for his kind assistance with this catalogue entry.
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