Accession number
PML 199047-48
Creator
Calepino, Ambrogio, 1435-1511.
Published
Venetiis : Apud Aldi filios, M.D. LII.[1552]
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
2 volumes (794 unnumbered leaves) ; 35 cm
Notes
Signatures: a-z, aa-yy⁸, zz¹⁰ (zz10 blank), A-Z, AA-XX⁸, YY¹⁰, a-o⁴, p⁶.
Printer's device on each title page; each final leaf.
A reprint of the 1548 Aldine edition of Calepino's dictionary, with new title-pages, and a new appendix of 62 leaves (a-o⁴
Printer's device on each title page; each final leaf.
A reprint of the 1548 Aldine edition of Calepino's dictionary, with new title-pages, and a new appendix of 62 leaves (a-o⁴
Binding
Genoese dark green morocco (ca. 1560), by the Grimaldi Binder (348 x 245 mm), single gilt fillet around sides, gilt rosette at corners, inner frame of gilt and blind fillets, with fleuron in corners, two intertwined gilt rectangles with fleuron at outer a
Provenance
Unidentified owner (supralibros of a phoenix); Finarte, Libri, autografi e stampe, Rome, 20 June 2019, lot 27; Meda Riquier Rare Books, London, their catalogue, 2020, page 34-37; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's,
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