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RAVISIUS, JOHANNES, editor. De memorabilibus et claris mulieribus. 219 [i. e., 221], [2] (of [3]) leaves; y9 and y10 transposed, lacks F1 and final blank. Folio, 315x211 mm, 17th-century English calf, worn, front joint cracked at bottom; some light marginal dampstaining, early signature of Arthur Dudley on title, scattered early marginalia, blank lower margin torn off last leaf. wide-margined copy. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1521
first edition of a collection of ancient and Renaissance texts on famous women, including De claris mulieribus by Plutarch, the 1494 work of the same title by Jacopo Filippo Foresti, the life of St. Catherine of Siena by Jean de Pins, and writings by Baptista Fregoso on scholarly women, among them Sappho, St. Elizabeth of Schönau, and St. Hildegard. Schreiber (Colines) 5.
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