Accession number
PML 48492
Creator
Callimachus.
Published
Basileia : par' Hierōnymō tō Phrōveniō kai Nikolaō tō Episkopiō, [1532]
Credit line
Fellows,
Description
245, [3] pages ; 21 cm (4to)
Notes
Imprint from colophon, dated in Greek characters: [alpha phi gamma beta]
Title page with imprint: Basiliae, anno MD XXXII, with Froben's device.
Froben's device on final page.
Edited by Sigmundus Gelenius.
Froben's device on t.p. and in coloph
Title page with imprint: Basiliae, anno MD XXXII, with Froben's device.
Froben's device on final page.
Edited by Sigmundus Gelenius.
Froben's device on t.p. and in coloph
Binding
16th-century French gilt-tooled white calf, with Beaulieu arms and inscription: "Elle ma faict Beaulieu," with initials "P de B" on lower board (owner unidentified; attributed to Pecking Crow Binder. Gilt edges. 2 ties, missing. Restored by B[énard] of P
Inscriptions/Markings
Initial Z (leaf B1r) illuminated in gold.
Variant title
Callimachi Hymni Græce
Provenance
Baeulieu, armorial binding; Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778-1841), his sale, Evans, 19 February-23 March 1827, lot 768, bought-in by Sowerby for 19s; Thomas Shadford Walker (1834-1885), Catalogue of a loan collection of ancient & modern bookbindings, exhi
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