This incunable is a popular devotional and moralising work, written in the vernacular, and printed in Vicenza by Johannes de Reno in 1476. The precursors of this text were the works of the Spanish writer, Gonzalo de Berceo (1180-1246), the French Benedictine, Gautier de Coincy (1177-1236) and, at the end of the 14th century, the Italian Duccio di Gano. One page is illustrated in the AR.
Item Provenance
Inscribed by Brother Victor de Muriano, a Camaldolese monk, in 1479; Maffeo Pinelli, Venice (1735-85); Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); John Vertue, Bishop of Portsmouth; given in 1894 with his library to Stonyhurst College, until sold in 2003.