1500 INCUNABULA POETRY by Baptista Mantuanus antique RARE INCUNABLE

img{max-width:100%} Baptista Mantuanus. Opera [with contributions by Hermannus Buschius, Franciscus Ceretus, Theodoricus Ulsenius, Petrus Bonomus and Jodocus Badius Ascensius]. 5 parts in 1 volume. With 2 (repeated) woodcut vignettes. Cologne, apud Praedicatores [i.e. Cornelius of Zierickzee], 1500Size 5.5 by 8.5"  (21.7 × 15 cm). [66], [40], [20], [54], [44] ll. 27-29 lines. Wooden cover , half with blind stamped pigskin,  brass claspWith traces of worming in wood - Rare Cologne work edition in five parts, the fifth and last part in the present copy bound after the second. The poet and humanist Battista Mantovano (Giovanni Battista Spagnoli, 1447-1516) belonged to the Carmelite order and wrote religious poems in a style inspired by Virgil. In 1513 he became prior general of his order.Narrow brown stain in the upper margin, this only on the first approx. 15 leaves, the first two sheets with small letter losses. Slightly browned and finger-stained, some period underlining and marginali