Accession number
PML 59345
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published
In Vinegia : Ad instantia di M. Gioanni Giolitto da Trino : Per M. Bernardino Stagnino, 1536.
Credit line
Julia P. Wightman,
Description
[28], 440 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 22 cm
Notes
"Per M. Bernardino Stagnino" from colophon.
Portrait of Dante in medallion on t.p.; large woodcut on leaf [1st]A1v; a small woodcut at the beginning of each canto.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Portrait of Dante in medallion on t.p.; large woodcut on leaf [1st]A1v; a small woodcut at the beginning of each canto.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Rome) brown calf, gold tooled with interlace and foliate ornaments and tools of Fortune with a sail and a Cupid, bound for Girolamo Ruiz with his initials (I R) and arms, attributed to the Ruiz Binder or Arabesque Binder (the stamp a
Provenance
Girolamo (Jerónimo) Ruiz (active 1560-70), armorial binding (see Bibliotheca Brookeriana, part I, lot 37); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Georges Heilbrun as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1969.
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