4to (19,5 x 14 cm), [80] ff, collation: a-k8, lacking last quire: l1-l6. 34 lines per pages. With lombards in red and blue. With two initials in gold leaf on pink and blue background on f. a2. Some marginal dampstains. Sewn, paper cover reusing a printed leaf (text in Latin and Italian)
Provenance:
'Pertinet ad Conv. S. Antonij Arcis antiquae' (fol. a2 r°), Belgian auction 13.01.1979.
Ref. ISTC ih00251000; Goff H251; HCR 8642; Pr 6470; BMC VI 887; GW 9460; Elly Cockx-Indestege, Classica et humanistica, n° 127 (this copy). About the printer: Michael Manzolus printed in Treviso from 1476 to 1480. He printed this 'Vita et transitus' first on 20 Nov. 1478, then again on 29 March, 1480 and on 1 Dec. 1480. ""Letters about the life, death and miracles of St. Jerome probably originated in the first half of the 14th century in southern France or more likely in northern Italy in Dominican circles"" (GW) The 'Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi' was a main devotional work upon which the humanist and the renaissance cult of Saint Jerome was built, testified by a large number of manuscript copies, and printed editions of the work. This edition is scarce, no other copies known in Belgian libraries. No copies in recent auction records.
Ref. Ines Ivic, Circulation of 'Vita et Transitus Sancti Hieronymi' along the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Late Middle Ages, 2020
