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Libro della vita civile.

Accession number
PML 64451
Creator
Palmieri, Matteo, 1405-1475.
Published
In Firenze : per li heredi de Philippo di Giunta, nel'anno del Signore M.D.XXIX alli 5. di Settembre [5 September 1529].
Credit line
Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund,
Description
125 (i.e. 121) p., [3] l. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Florence or Venice?) brown morocco, gold tooled with corner foilate stamps and central roundel made up of trefoil-and-knot tools; front roundel has title "Della Vita Civile" and rear roundel has Fortune and sail stamp.
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript title on fore-edge.
Provenance
Giovanni Palmieri Nuti, booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from William Salloch on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, Nov. 1973.
Classification
Century
Department