PETRUS DE NATALIBUS (1370-1400). Catalogus sanctorum, Venice, 1516, small 4to, woodcut illustrations and initials (staining, spotting and light browning), contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated in blind.

PETRUS DE NATALIBUS (1370-1400).  Catalogus sanctoru[m et] gestorum eorum. [Colophon:] Venice: Nicolaus de Franckfordia, 1516. Small 4to (214 x 152mm). Full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion surrounded by 14 smaller narrative scenes, the opposite page with 9 woodcut scenes and woodcut foliate borders to two sides, numerous initials, many historiated, the text printed in double column (lacks all before title and with 2 stubs [?for initial blanks], a few leaves loose, variable staining, spotting and light browning throughout). Contemporary panelled calf elaborately decorated in blind (rebacked preserving old spine, a few other repairs, rubbed). Provenance: Petrus Franciscus Passerini (old label on front pastedown); later library label and later pencil collation on the same pastedown; contemporary annotation mainly to first few leaves and, more extensively, at the end. A history of the lives of the Saints, first published in Vicenza in 1493. Adams N47; cf. Brunet III, 496 (citing the first edition); Essling 1511; Sander 4941.