Accession number
PML 199052
Creator
Crinito, Pietro, 1465-approximately 1504, author.
Published
Impressum Florentiae : Per Philippum Iuntam, Kalen[dis] Februariis MDV [February 1, 1505 or 1506]
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
96 unnumbered pages ; 28 cm (fol.)
Notes
"Petrus Crinitus (“Curly”), d. 1507, was the pen name of the Florence humanist Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, disciple of Poliziano. His literary miscellany De honesta disciplina, published by Giunta in 1504, went through many editions. De poetis latinis is gen
Binding
Bound for Jean Grolier by the Cupid's Bow Binder; brown morocco with gilt tooling of open and azured tools (280 x 200 mm), inlaid red morocco roundel on upper cover with gilt title, Grolier's ownership inscription gilt in bottom compartment of upper cover
Provenance
Jean Grolier (died 1565); Claude Gros de Boze (sale Paris, Martin, 1753, lot 2578; Antoine Marie Pâris d'Illins (Bibliotheca Parisiana, London, 28 March 1791, lot 186); Michael Wodhull (“Leigh's sale, Nov. 28th 1801 £1 11s 6d”; Sotheby's, 11 January 1886
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