Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University

by Addison Van Name

The Wodhull copy, bought at the Pinelli sale for £2.12s.6d. Bound in hf. vellum. Leaf 12 × 8 1/4 in.

15. UBERTINUS DE CASALI. Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu. Venetiis, Andreas de Bonetis de Papia, 12 March, 1485.

Fol. 1, blank. Fol. 2a: INCIPIT PROLOGVS IN LIBRVM QVI INTITVLATVR ARBOR VITE CRVCIFIXE IESV. ET DICITVR OPVS VBERTINI DE CASALI. QVI FVIT FRATER PROFESSVS ORDINIS MINORVM BEATI FRANCISCI. Fol. 4a, col. 2: Explicit primus prologus. Incipit secundus. Fol. 5a, col. 2: Explicit prologus secundus. Incipit liber primus. Fol. 248b, col. 2, Colophon: Liber qui intitulatur Arbor uite crucifixe Iesu deuotissimi fratris Vbertini de Casali ordinis minorum feliciter explicit. Impressus Venetiis per Andream de Bonettis de Papia. Anno .M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die.xii.Martii. Ioanne Mocenico inclyto principe regnante. Fol. 249a: Tabula capitulorum. Fol. 249b, col. 2: Registrum. Fol. 250, blank.

Folio. Sign. a-z8, A8, B12, C-G8, H6. 250 leaves, 1, 204, 250 blank, 2 columns and head-line, 58 lines to the column, roman letter. The head-lines give the subject, book and chapter numbers. Eight-line spaces left for the initials of the five books and three-line spaces, some with guide-letters, for the chapter initials, both supplied in red. Blank first and last leaves wanting. Hain *4551. Pellechet 3331. Proctor 4816.

Bound in olive green morocco with gold borders and gilt edges. Book-stamp of J. Richard, D.M., on first and last leaf of text, and book-plate of another owner, Jules Frayssenet, of Fleurance, printed on full leaf inserted between the fly-leaves, front and back, and the text. Leaf 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 in.

Andreas de Bonetis, of Pavia, printed at Venice from 1483 to 1487.

16. ALBERTIS, Leo Baptista de. De amoris remedio. 1471.

Fol. 1a: BATISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS PRAECLARVM IN AMORIS REMEDIO FELICITER INCIPIT. Fol. 20b, Colophon: BAPTISTAE DE ALBERTIS POETAE LAVREATI OPVS IN AMORIS REMEDIO VTILISSIMVM FELICITER FINIT. .M.CCCC.LXXI.

Quarto. Quires [18, 212], 20 leaves, 25 lines to the page, roman letter, without signatures, catchwords, pagination, place or printer's name. Two- to six-line spaces left for initials, but the present copy is without rubrication. Hain *422. Panzer iii. 82, 69; iv. 5, 16. Pellechet 268. Proctor 7346.

Notwithstanding the Latin title, the work itself is wholly in Italian and both in the MSS. and in later printed editions is found also under the title Deifira ossia del mal principiato amore. A companion volume by the same author, with the Latin title De amore liber, and the Italian, Ecatomfilea ossia del vero amore, was printed the same year, in the same type, the same number of leaves and lines to the page. Still another work in the same type and form and apparently of the same date, entitled Historieta amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Hippolito Bondelmonti, is attributed on good evidence to De Albertis. Copies of all three works, printed alike on vellum and bound together in one volume, formerly in the Mac-Carthy Collection (Catalogue, Paris, 1815, no. 3595), are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Vélins 1964). In the present copy of De amoris remedio the manuscript signatures b and c, partly cut away, point to an earlier binding, in which the Historieta consisting of only twelve leaves may possibly have formed the signature a.