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CAMPORA, Giacomo (fl.1472). Dell'immortalità dell'anima. Milan: Ulrich Scinzenzeller, 6 September 1497
12° (147 x 96mm). Collation: a-h4 i2 k4 (a1r title, woodcut, a1v blank, a2r text, k3r colophon, k3v tabula, k4v blank). 38 leaves. 30 lines. Type: 4:186G (title), 13:75R (text). Title woodcut, woodcut ornamental initials. (Small wormholes touching an occasional letter.) Modern limp vellum. Provenance: a later inscription reading "In Milano MCCCCLXXXXVI" washed from first leaf.
A Dominican friar of Genoa, Campora also studied at the Oxford Convent, where he took a degree in 1472. He wrote this tract of popular devotion at the request of Giovanni di Marcanova, an Italian merchant active in London (Emden, BRUO I, 344). Scinzenzeller reused the title cut in his Aesop, printed December of the same year (GW 439). R 1483; GW 5953; IGI 2397; Sander 1575.
12° (147 x 96mm). Collation: a-h4 i2 k4 (a1r title, woodcut, a1v blank, a2r text, k3r colophon, k3v tabula, k4v blank). 38 leaves. 30 lines. Type: 4:186G (title), 13:75R (text). Title woodcut, woodcut ornamental initials. (Small wormholes touching an occasional letter.) Modern limp vellum. Provenance: a later inscription reading "In Milano MCCCCLXXXXVI" washed from first leaf.
A Dominican friar of Genoa, Campora also studied at the Oxford Convent, where he took a degree in 1472. He wrote this tract of popular devotion at the request of Giovanni di Marcanova, an Italian merchant active in London (Emden, BRUO I, 344). Scinzenzeller reused the title cut in his Aesop, printed December of the same year (GW 439). R 1483; GW 5953; IGI 2397; Sander 1575.