An introduction to the incunabula collection of Biblioteca Diocesana in Aosta. With a revision of the description of a fifteenth century edition printed in Lyon and the discovery of an unknown sixteenth century edition

Abstract

Aosta’s Biblioteca Diocesana owns a collection of about 150 incunabula wich have been cataloged in the middle of the last century. The section has been recently reexamined and all the provenance informations are now available in Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database. The activity has made possible to identify ancient owners of incunbula now in the library and helped the study about the circulation of book in Aosta Valley. The research also led to discovery a unknown sixteenth-century edition, which is here described and assigned to the typography of Johann Besicken. A bibliographical revision of the description of a fifteenth-century edition of De consolatione philosophiae printed in Lyons by Guillaume Le Roy is also given.

Keywords

• biblioteca diocesana di aosta
• incunaboli
• de consolatione philosophiae
• guillaume le roy
• johann besicken