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Marian Devotion SCALVO, Bartholomeo. Le Meditationi del Rosario della gloriosissima Maria Vergine. Nelle quali si contengono li piu segnalati mysterij della vita d'essa Beatissima Madre, et del suo unigenito Figliuolo Giesu Christo; della acerbissima passione della gloriosa Resurrettione, et Ascensione sua in cielo; con altre contemplationi consolatorie d'ogni anima christiana. Milan, Pacifico Pontio, 1569. 4to, (205 x 150mm), pp [viii], 172, [4], title within four-block woodcut border containing in all 9 Biblical scenes; three full-page woodcuts surrounded by woodblock border; text set within woodcut ornamental and figurative four-block border (alternating four series for the top and side blocks and five for the lower blocks; nearly every page with a woodcut or typographic ornamental cartouche for chapter headings (six distinct sets); type ornaments and fleurons; title page a little stained and repaired in gutter margin, three further leaves strengthened in gutter margin; re-cased in contemporary vellum over boards, a little creased, endpapers renewed.
First edition in Italian of this stunningly illustrated guide to meditation during the Rosary as part of Catholic spirituality. Bartolomeo Scalvo's Meditationi del Rosario della Gloriosa Maria Virgine (i.e. Meditations on the Rosary of the Glorious Virgin Mary) was printed in 1569 for the rosary confraternity of Milan and supplied an individual meditation to accompany each bead or prayer. Pacifico da Ponte, the official printer to the Archbishopric in Milan had issued a Latin edition with the same woodcut illustrations a month earlier, but with a different dedicatee. Both editions of this Marian text came to be used in Borromeo’s (ordained just a few years earlier) Counter-Reformation program. The work presents a high-point of book production in its elaborate use of a number of woodcut borders, which incorporate scenes for the life of the Virgin, figures o saints etc., but also typographic elements. The three large woodcuts, introducing each of the three parts, show the Virgin and Child enthroned (opposite p. 1), the Crucifixion (p. 56), and the Resurrection (p. 118). Rava, in his supplement to Sander, comments on the two remarkable woodcuts, unknown outside Scalvo’s rosary book, and maintains they were almost certainly printed from blocks dating to the very beginning of the 16th century. Rava remarks that ‘above all the woodcut of the Resurrection belongs to the best period of Lombard woodcuts’. WorldCat: Newbery, possibly New York Public Library, BL, outside of Italy; CNCE 53865; Rava, Supplément à Max Sander, Le livre à figures italien (1969) 4342; Cf. P. Kristeller, Die lombardische Graphik der Renaissance (1913), pp. 48-57. Cf. E. Ardissino, “Literary and Visual Forms of a Domestic Devotion: The Rosary in Renaissance Italy,” Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy (Brill, 2018), pp. 342-371.
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Sachgebiete: Bibliophilie, Holzschnitt, Religion, Renaissance
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