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Stationes almae urbis [ Romae ]. [Rome: Adam Rot, ca. 1474]. 8° (200 x 143 mm). Collation: [1] 2 (1/1r title and incipit: ISTE SVNT STACIONES ALME VRBIS / Dominica prima de adue(n)tu ad sanctam mariam maiorem, 1/2v Sabato ad sanctum petrum FINIS ). 2 leaves. 28 lines. Type 1:102R. (Worm track to lower inner margins, minor fold break, light marginal foxing.) Disbound from a Sammelband, original paper index tab; modern black calf folding case. Provenance: marginal numbering (1-18) of the principal holy days in a neat 18th-century hand; V. A. Heck, Vienna, inserted letter of 17 July 1926 addressed to him from the Kommission fr den Gesamtkatakog der Wiegendrcke; (Lathrop C. Harper, cat. 152/187 [1927]). ONE OF TWO COPIES KNOWN of this edition listing the seasonal Stations of the pilgrimage to Rome. It is elsewhere found appended to the third and longest of the three texts commonly and somewhat confusingly grouped under the general rubric of Mirabilia Romae , the standard early pilgrims' guide to Rome. The third and longest of these texts, usually titled Historia et descriptio urbis Romae , contains a concise history of Rome and adds to the list of indulgences and holy relics given in the preceding text, a list of relics from 86 other churches of the city, followed by this list of the Stations. The earliest dated edition of this last and fullest version of the Mirabilia Romae is Stephan Plannck's 7 November 1489 edition (H 11193), while undated editions, also by Plannck, are assigned to 1484-87 (Goff M-594) and ca. 1486 (Goff M-595). The only other recorded copy of the present bifolium is at Montecassino. That copy, which is bound at the end of Adam Rot's edition of the Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae (BMC IV, 44, IA. 17593) appears to be from the same setting of type but shows minor variants in abbreviations and spelling that appear to result from in-press corrections. The Montecassino catalogue and, following it, IGI took these two leaves to be part of Adam Rot's edition of the Indulgentiae , while the editors of ISTC consider it more likely that they were available for separate purchase from the start, given 'the absence of the leaves from IA. 17593 and the fact that Harper offered them separately'. In 1926 the editors of the Gesamtkatalog also considered the Stationes to be an independent edition, independent in fact of that represented by the Montecassino copy. The scarcity of evidence makes it difficult to draw a definite conclusion either way. In any case, these leaves were printed in the type of Adam Rot, whose printing activity ceased in 1474. Another edition of the Stationes , also of two leaves but representing another setting of type, is attributed to Rome: Printer of the Mercuriales Quaestiones (Theobald Schenkbecher), ca. 1473 (Sack, Friburg 3273); this too appears to have been issued as an independent publication. IGI 6472 (part); 'Incunaboli di Montecassino', Miscellanea Cassinese 6, 1929, p. 122, reproduced; Goff S-690 (apparently this copy).