Monte santo di Dio

Bettini, Antonio, 1396-1487, Laurentii, Nicolaus, active 1475-1486, printer, Curzon-Howe, Richard William Penn, 1822-1900, former owner, Williams, John Camp, 1859?-1929, former owner, Curzon, Richard William Penn, 1796-1870, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1477 · Florence, Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 10 Sept. 1477. · 4 pictures

Monte santo di Dio is a devotional work by Antonio Bettini, printed in Florence in 1477 by Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, an early printed incunabulum for a religious readership. Its pictures are fine line engravings, including a haloed figure in a radiant mandorla ringed by angels and a dense block of Italian text with an ornate initial, offering a designer models of early printed devotional ornament and layout.

Devotional literature · Early works to 1800 · Florence · Incunabula · Italy

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