Plutarchi cheronei Graecorum Romanorumque illustrium vitae.

Accession number: 
PML 16883
Author: 
Plutarch.
Published: 
Basileae : Apud Mich. Isingrinium, M.D.XLII [1542].
Description: 
24, 401 leaves ; 35 cm (fol)
Binding: 
16th-century Italian (Rome) brown morocco gold tooled with interlace border, foliate ornaments and veritcal medallion at center with Apollo & Pegasus, attributed by Anthony Hobson to Marcantonio Guillery; Nixon attributed to the Farnese Binder.
Provenance: 
The Apollo & Pegasus bindings were previously thought to belong to Demetrio Carnevari or Per Luigi Farnese. Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (b. about 1524), binding (see Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, pp. 49ff); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Rahir, 1910.
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