Accession number
PML 51588.3
Creator
Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano, 1425?-1505.
Published
[Basel] : [Bartholomeus Westheimer], [approximately 1537]
Credit line
the Fellows,
Description
[8], 259, [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Notes
A counterfeit of the Aldine edition of 1513. cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. Title vignette is imitation of the Aldine device.
Imprint from Renouard; Adams supplies possible date of ca. 1540. VD 16 dates as ca. 1545.
Edited by Aldo Pio Manuzio.
Includes Aldo
Imprint from Renouard; Adams supplies possible date of ca. 1540. VD 16 dates as ca. 1545.
Edited by Aldo Pio Manuzio.
Includes Aldo
Binding
Dos-à-dos (back-to-back or twin) binding of brown calf, tooled in gilt and blind, with sunken panels with rectangles of vellum stamped with allegorical panels (Medicine and Astronomy, Faith and Hope) and colored, with gauffered, gilt, and painted edges;
Inscriptions/Markings
Marginal notes throughout the volumes.
Provenance
Unidentified owner: M.G.H.C., gilt-tooled initials on covers; Friderich Enslin, gift inscription from his brother Christian, 1625 (front pastedown and Strozzi title page); L.G. Zenne, signature, "Stub. Denk.," 1792 (Strozzi title page); Richard von König
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