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A leaf from from the Rosario de la Gloriosa Virgine Maria by Alberto da Castello - a block-printed Rosary book.
Verso:A block printed woodcut of St. John in the act of baptising Jesus, watched over by God in Heaven. The border panels include nobles, floral designs and two angels holding a scroll with the words Ave Maria. The heading above the woodcut Christo iesu su baptisato (Baptism of Jesus Christ) is in Italian.
Recto: Text only, in Italian.
Source: Venice. Date: 1524.
Printers:M. Sessa & P. Ravani.
Condition: This leaf is in very good antiquarian condition. The margins are original as the images were imprecisely placed on the paper. The leaf is unconditionally guaranteed genuine.
Notes: During the 12th century, popular love for Mary inspired Europeans to begin using their paternoster beads to pray to her, with what gradually evolved into the 'Hail Mary' that is prayed today. Over time, phrases and meditations on miraculous events from the lives of Jesus and His mother were added to the 'Hail… Read More

A leaf from from the Rosario de la Gloriosa Virgine Maria by Alberto da Castello - a block-printed Rosary book.
Verso:A block printed woodcut of the Holy Family arriving from Egypt at the outskirts of Nazareth which is pictured in the background. The border panels include winged eagle and other grotesques, and a floral design of acanthus and other foliage framing the words Ave Maria. The heading above the woodcut: Come ioseph torno in nazareth is in Italian.
Recto: Text only, in Italian.
Source: Venice. Date: 1524.
Printers:M. Sessa & P. Ravani.
Condition: This leaf is in very good antiquarian condition. The margins are original as the images were imprecisely placed on the paper. The leaf is unconditionally guaranteed genuine.
Notes: During the 12th century, popular love for Mary inspired Europeans to begin using their paternoster beads to pray to her, with what gradually evolved into the 'Hail Mary' that is prayed today. Over time, phrases and meditations on miraculous events from the lives of Jesus… Read More

Nicolas De Lyra (c.1270-1340) was a French doctor of theology and teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris. His commentary on the Bible, Postilla litteralis, was the definitive biblical commentary from the late Middle Ages until the Reformation.
Martin Luther is claimed to have stated "Without Lyra we would understand neither the old or new testament."
Verso: Text in Latin printed in four sizes of a rounded gothic type on watermarked laid paper. Three coloured initials added by hand after the printing. Chapter and gloss headings marked in red. Capital letters touched in yellow. One manicule (pointing hand) and catchwords in the bottom margin. The text from Luke Chapter 12 is the central block of text and is surrounded by the gloss (commentary) of Nicolas de Lyra and others.
Recto: As Verso with two manicules.
Printer: Johann Froben and Johann Petry, Basel.
Date: December 1, 1498.
Content: The text is from Chapter 12 of Luke. The red 'M' begins Chapter 12:
Multis autem turbis circumstantibus ita ut se… Read More

Sienese easel painter and manuscript illuminator Sano di Pietro (1405-1481) was the head of a workshop that fulfilled the demands of civic and religious institutions in the city. His production, technically always of a very fine quality, was rich in decorative effects and characterised by a brilliant palette. His work as an illuminator is documented from the end of 1445 when he decorated a Psalter for Siena Cathedral.
Provenance: The dimensions and style of this leaf almost perfectly match those of a missal in Bruce Ferrini, Catalogue 1 (1987), no. 45, Use of Rome, illuminated by Sano di Pietro and doubtless from Siena.
Recto: Rubrics in red and capitals touched in yellow. Original foliation "XXIII" in red pen. Text written in two columns in black ink on vellum in Latin in a precise, gothic script. Three two-line decorated initials alternating in red with blue pen flourishes and blue with red pen flourishes and a number of similar one-line initials. One three-line illuminated initial 'F' in blue,… Read More