Vivaldi, Giovanni Lodovico

Aureum opus de veritate contritionis in quo mirifica documenta eterne salutis aperiuntur

      Paris: Francois Regnault, 17 May 1517 [colophon on t8 recto]. Small 8vo. Title printed in red and black, with printer's woodcut device elephant and monogram; text in black letter with crible initials. a-y8Z2. 186 leaves, misfoliated i-clii [cliii-clxxviii]. Nineteenth-century floral- patterened boards. Printer's device on title page tinted in an early hand, title slightly soiled, otherwise a pleasant, crisp copy. Rare -- Not in OCLC; not in RLIN; not in Adams; the only copies we have found were in the British Library and Bibliotheque Nationale . Lovely example of this popular devotional, first printed in Lyon, 1503 (?), and several times thereafter through theearly of the 16th century. Regnault, the Parisian printer, first printed it in 1508