Accession number:
PML 199265.2
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, Mense Novembri M.D. XVII [1517]
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
107, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8°)
Notes:
Aldine device on title page and at end.
Italic type.
Edited by Hieronymus Avancius (Girolamo Avanzi), who signs the dedicatory letter to Marcus Cornelius Cardinal.
Errors in foliation: 2 numbered 3, 6, 7, 80 not numbered.
Publication statement is taken from colophon.
Signatures: a-n⁸ o⁴(-o4) (l4 missigned i4).
107 (of 108) leaves, woodcut Aldine device on title-page.
There are two known states of this work. In the first state, the forename of the editor on the verso of the title leaf is correctly spelled "Hieronymus". In the second state, the same name is incorrectly spelled "Hieroymus."
Library has the first state, with the forename of the editor on the verso of the title leaf correctly spelled "Hieronymus".
Variant Title:
Avsonivs
Provenance:
Inscription, “Rome 4°. Calendas Novembris Anno 1520,” on lower endleaf (possibly the purchase date); later Latin inscription below; inscription on upper endleaf, eight hexameters of Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli, the “Argumentum in primum (secundum) librum” for Pharsalia (first printed Venice, 1493); contemporary marginalia throughout; Eugène Wassermann (1870-1925); Georges Vicaire, Les livres composant le cabinet de M. Eugène v. W*** (Brussels 1913), no. 845; Galerie Georges Giroux & Henri Leclerc with Charles de Samblanx, Brussels, 24 October-5 November 1921, lot 1006; Meijer Elte, The Hague; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., London, purchased 9 May 1925 (New York, Grolier Club, E.P. Goldschmidt stockbook, #6852, £12); E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Catalogue 4, London 1924, item 126 and Pl. 17 (£27 10s); Catalogue 8, London 1925, item 104 and Pl. XIV; Catalogue 1928, p. 200 no. 91 and Pl. 39; Arthur Lauria, Paris; Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), bookplate to pastedown dated 1937; Christie's Paris, 15 December 2015, lot 127 (€10,000). acquisition: Purchased at Christie's via Robin Halwas; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M, Sotheby's, New York, 18 October 2024, lot 861.
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