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Dennis E. Rhodes, Manuscripts and Rare Books: 15th–18th century from the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Catalogue compiled by Leonora Navari., The Library, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 426–427, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/12.4.426
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This is the second of three catalogues, beautifully produced on glossy paper, which the Bank of Cyprus commissioned Leonora Navari to produce. In the first, published in 2003, she catalogued the Foundation's collection of maps, and in the third she will complete the series by describing the nineteenth century travel books.
The volume under review describes 181 items in all, of which every one is illustrated in colour, in the case of the printed books by their title-pages. The items are arranged in chronological order, beginning with 18 letters, mostly of a commercial nature, which have miraculously survived, variously dated between 3 January 1407 and 14 October 1512. After this comes the only incunable in the collection: the Nuremberg edition printed by Anton Koberger in 1500, of St. Bridget of Sweden, Revelationes, of which the title-leaf with its striking woodcut is unhappily mutilated. This is followed by a copy of Pietro Bembo's Asolani printed by Aldus Manutius in 1505, the issue with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia. For those with a special interest in Italian bibliography by far the most interesting and important items in this collection are a group of some thirty or more printed accounts of the war of Cyprus, and especially the Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571.
