1499 INCUNABLE Italian Renaissance Mantuanus Poems Somnium Sanseverino RARE

1499 INCUNABLE Italian Renaissance Mantuanus Poems Somnium Sanseverino RARE

 

Baptista Mantuanus was a Carmelite poet whose 15^th-century works were influential during the Protestant Reformation. One of his most important poems was his collection of poems dedicated to Robert Sanseverino, an Italian mercenary captain, under the title Panaegyricum Carmen. Other works included in this tome include Somnium Romanum ad epigrammata ad Falconem, and other shorter poems.

 

This 1499 incunabula printing is exceedingly rare and highly valuable. This entirely complete tome is bound in exquisite red-leather and includes a protective custom case.

 

Item number: #13764

Price: $3950

 

MANTUANUS, Baptista

 

Fratris Baptistae Mantuani Carmelitae theologi ad clarissimum equitem dominum Lodouicum Gonzalem Hispanum diui Iacobi Galleci co[m]me[n]datarium dignissimum in Robertum Seuerinatem panaegyricum carmen.

 

Venetiis Impressum est per Iacobum de Leucho, Anno natiuitatis dominice. Mcccc.xcix. die vi. Augusti. [6 August 1499].

 

Details:

• Collation – Complete
  • 50 leaves
  • Signatures: A-E⁸ F6 G⁴
• References: ISTC ib00087000; Goff B 87; HC 2396; Proctor 5584; BMC V 565; GW 3260
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Includes custom slip case
• Size: ~8.25in X 5.75in (20.5cm x 14.5cm)

 

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