Accession number
PML 199046
Creator
Appianus, of Alexandria, author.
Published
In Vinegia : Nelle case di Pietro di Niccoline de Sabbio, Ne glianni del Signore, M.D. XXXVIII. del mese d'Aprile [1538]
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
287 [i.e. 289], [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes
Printed by Paolo Manuzio. Consult Renouard.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A-2N⁸ (2N8 blank).
Errors in foliation: 200 numbered 100, 201 numbered 101, 202 numbered 102, 203 numbered 201, 202-203 repeated.
Title within decorative woodcut bo
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A-2N⁸ (2N8 blank).
Errors in foliation: 200 numbered 100, 201 numbered 101, 202 numbered 102, 203 numbered 201, 202-203 repeated.
Title within decorative woodcut bo
Binding
Contemporary (French?) calf with double gilt fillet border and small corner fleurs-de-lys (162 x 105 mm), central arms gilt of Sir William Pickering (British Armorial Bindings, stamp 2), later spine with red morocco lettering-piece and small gilt stamp in
Inscriptions/Markings
Ruled in red (including final blank); with a few early manuscript annotations in Italian, possibly in the hand of Sir William Pickering who was fluent in French and Italian.
Variant title
Civili
Provenance
Sir William Pickering (1516-1575), arms on binding (his library inherited by his daughter Hester who married Thomas Wotton's son Edward, and their library was inherited by their granddaughter Catherine, who married Henry, Lord Stanhope, the son of the Ear
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