Accession number:
PML 1279
Published:
Venetiis : Apud Aldi filios M.D.XLVII [1547].
Description:
[6], 469, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Printer's mark on last.
Commentary without text.
Binding:
16th-century French black calf, gold tooled and painted in a strapwork pattern, with monogram of Hieronymus (or Alessandro) Fioravanti on lower cover; hinges repaired.
Provenance:
Hieronymus or Alessandro Fioravanti, monogram (binding; monogram was previously thought to be Thomas Mahieu); Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), signature: Iac. Avg. Thvani (title page and leaf 469v); Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), name stamped on upper cover, his sale: Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 752; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), shelfmark: B2 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), bookplate (front pastedown), exhibited at the Burlington Fine Art Club (1891) as a Maioli binding, 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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