Accession number
PML 2009
Creator
Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri, mense Maio M.D.XXVII. [1527]
Description
14, 299, [3] leaves
Notes
1st Aldine ed.
Aldine device on title page and at end.
Includes index.
Publication statement taken from colophon.
Aldine device on title page and at end.
Includes index.
Publication statement taken from colophon.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Rome) brown morocco gold tooled with interlace border, foliate ornaments and horizontal medallion at center with Apollo & Pegasus, attributed by Anthony Hobson to Niccolò Franzese; Nixon attributed to the Farnese Binder.
Provenance
The Apollo & Pegasus bindings were previously thought to belong to Demetrio Carnevari or Per Luigi Farnese. Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (b. about 1524), binding (see Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, pp. 49ff); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), pur
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