BONAVENTURA, OPUSCULA, STRASSBURG, 1495, 2 VOLUMES, CONTEMPORARY CALF

2 volumes, Chancery folio (283 x 196mm.), Part I: 380 leaves, [*8] 2-46 a b8 c–f6.8 g h6 i–y8.6 z8 A–M6.8 N–Q6 R–Y8.6 Z8 AA6 BB8 CC DD6 EE8; part II: 370 leaves, 2A8 B C6 aa bb8 cc–qq6.8 rr–tt6 vv–zz8.6 2AA–QQ8.6 RR SS6 TT–YY8.6 ZZ8 Aaa–Eee6, double column, 52 lines plus headline and foliations "I-CCCLV" (I, fos a1-EE7), and "I-CCCXLIX" (II, fos 2A1-EEE6), gothic type, initial spaces, 4 woodcut illustrations, a few contemporary marginal notes, cancellation of lines of text, and nota signs (including maniculae) in brown ink throughout, contemporary blind-stamped Italian sheep over wooden boards, paper labels on spines, two clasps, bindings worn and repaired, lacking all straps

possibly the Franciscan Capuchins of the convent of Santa Margherita in Cortona, their late fifteenth-century inscriptions on title: "Iste liber fuit est et erit ad usum fratris Alexandri de Cortona [?]" (fols [*1r], ²A1r); "Iste liber pertinet ad locum sancte Margheritae de Cortona [--] / [--] fratris [Alexandri] [--]" (fos EE8v, EEE6v)

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Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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