Accession number:
PML 1419-21
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, [1519-1533]
Description:
5 parts ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Part 1: Decas prima (Dec. 1518); part 2: Decas tertia ... Feb. 1519; part 3: Decas quarta ... Nov., 1520; part 4: Epitomae ... Lucius Florus ... Polybius ... Mar., 1521; part 5: Decadis quintae ... May, 1533.
Morgan copy with parts 3 and 5 bound together (PML 1421).
Morgan copy missing part 1.
Binding:
16th-century Venetian gilt-tooled red morocco for Granvelle by the Fugger Binder, part of an order placed by Granvelle in 1547 through the Venetian bookseller Gabriele Giolito (see Bibliotheca Brookeriana, pt. 1). Gilt edges, with purplish-brown title panel and volume number.
Provenance:
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586), stamped armorial (part 2, recto of final leaf; part 4, verso of title page; part 3, verso of title page) and bindings, with panel title on fore-edges; Besançon, Capuchin convent, inscription: "Ad usam Capucinorum Caonventus Bisuntini" (part 2, index title page; part 4, index title page; part 3, index title page); Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), shelfmark: C2 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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