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<dl><dd>Author's name appears in first line of prologue: Prologus fratris Jacobi philippi Bergomensis ..., and in the colophon with the imprint information</dd>
<dd>Colophon reads: Opus de claris selectisq plurimis mulieribus a frate Ia. philippi Bergomese editum explicit: maxia cu diligentia reuisu et castigatu per Reueren ... Albertu de placetia et frem Augustinu de Casali maiori. ... Ferrarie ...Laurentij de rubeis ... M.cccclxxxxvij ..</dd>
<dd>Full page woodcuts dated 1493. Initials. Of the 171 woodcut ports. some are repeated or only slightly modified. The author is shown in the woodcut on verso of t.p</dd>
<dd>Signatures: Aa-efg-pqrstvxy-z</dd>
<dd>Some errors in foliation resulting in an additional leaf. Cf. Besterman</dd>
<dd>Indexes: p. [7]-[9]</dd>
<dd>Hain</dd>
<dd>Sander, M. Livre à figures italien</dd>
<dd>Library's copy from Theodore Besterman's library. Cf. Besterman, T. Art books, p. 41</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Women; Christian saints; Queens; Martyrs</div>
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<dl><dd>Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520</dd>
<dd>Albertus, de Placentia</dd>
<dd>Augustinus, de Casali Maiori</dd></dl></div>
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