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Nicolas de LYRE

Moralia super totam Bibliam

Paul Butzbach, Mantoue 29 avril 1481, in-folio (19x27cm), [280] ff. [sig. a10, b6,c4,d-z8, A-J8, K6, L12], relié.

[INCUNABLE] LYRA Nicholas of (Lyranus Nicolaus)
Moralia super totam Bibliam
Paul Butzbach, Mantoue 29 April 1481, 190 x 270 mm (7 1/2 x 10 5/8 "), [280] ff [sig a10, b6,c4,d-z8, A-J8, K6, L12], stiff vellum
First Italian edition of the Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's (1270-1349) famous moral commentary, the third edition of this work. The first was published in Cologne in 1478. The text, in Latin, used for this edition is the one revised by Ludovico della Torre (? - 1365) who added the alphabetical index at the end, preceded by his Epistola pro operis emendatione et pro ipsius Tabula miro artificio ordinata, dated December 1480 and addressed to Francesco Raimondo of the San Apollonio monastery near Brescia.
Manuscript reference to a former owner, Don Octavius Feragnus Casalmaiorensis, dated 4 February 1598 at Cremona and noting the price of the book ("2 lira 5 solidi") as well as that of the binding ("1 lira 10 solidi").
A very handsome printing by Paul Butzbach, based in Mantua, in Gothic Lettre Bastarde in 54 lines divided into two columns. The large illuminated initial at the beginning of the prologue takes up the entire height of the page and a whole column, with delicate flower motifs. Typical of the Northern Italian school, this initial is very fine: the artist has given it depth by heightening it with little light and dark touches, applied with a brush no more than two or three hairs thick. The gilt ground of the initial, the use of the color purple and the stark color palette all come directly from the Byzantine tradition of illumination, which would last in Italy more than in the rest of Europe. The other initials are alternately rubricated in red or blue.
Stiff vellum with small flaps, reusing a page of a dedicatory epistle written in red, with a triple blue and red frame, vellum pastedowns from a 15th century gradual setting to music a text from Matthew's Gospel, staves in red, words and notes in black, two historiated initials with vegetal motifs in blue, red and gold and heightened with white, three smaller initials in red and blue. Lower edge with the note "Nicol. de Lyr. S. tot. Biblim".
Two wormtracks not touching text, one repaired in first leaves.
The last work printed by the German Paul Butzbach (circa 1447-1495) who started his career in his native province of Mainz, before emigrating to Italy and Verona, where he specialized in grammatical works. For reasons unknown, he moved to Mantua, where he established a press in which he printed 18 works in very different fields (theology, philosophy, exegesis and law). He then diversified his activities by beginning to deal in books: notarized documents from the period describe him both as a printer but also as merchator librorum; he even got together with a Venetian colleague to develop a distribution network. On the back of his success, he joined the court of Frederic II of Mantua, whose aesthetic traditions he took on.
A very good incunable with delicate illuminations, witness of a transitional period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between stylization and a form of representation closer to reality.    

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