Accession number
PML 199049
Creator
Cei, Francesco, 1471-1505, author.
Published
Impresso in Firenze : Per Philippo di Giunta cartolaio ciptadino fiorentino, anno ab incarnatione Christi MCCCCCIII [1503].
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
62 unnumbered leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes
First printing of a popular collection of poems in several genres of poesia cortigiana, in which the author (as Alcebano) confesses his love for Cassandra di Bartolomeo Bartolini Salimbeni (as Clizia).
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ a-g⁸ h
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ a-g⁸ h
Binding
Italian binding, ca. 1520, brown morocco (160 x 100 mm), panel stamp composed of two interlaced lines forming frame and interior of tendrils, leaves and arabesques, in center medallion bust portrait of Julius Caesar facing right with toga and lituus and w
Inscriptions/Markings
Purchase inscription, “Ex libris Joannii Francisci Lancellotti de Staphylo qui libras venetas septem,” in pen on final verso; annotations in ink and pencil.
Provenance
Giovanni Francesco Lancellotti (1721-1788), with sale inscription on final verso: “Ex libris Joannii Francisci Lancellotti de Staphylo qui libras venetas septem”; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 17-20 July
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