Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis De arte poëtica lib. III ; De bombyce, ad Isabellam Estensem Marchionissam, lib. II ; De ludo scacchorum, lib. I ; Hymni, cum nonnullis alijs ; Bucolica ; Epistola ad Ioan. Matthaeum Gybertum.

Accession number

PML 77283

Creator

Vida, Marco Girolamo, ca. 1485-1566.

Published

Lugduni : Apud Gryphium, 1536.

Credit line

Paul Needham,

Description

155, [5] pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Notes

Gryphius published in the same year the author's Christiados libri sex, which together with the works printed in this volume represents the author's complete literary output to the time, or nearly so.
Entirely in verse.
Signatures: A-K⁸ (G4 unsigned

Binding

19th-century brown calf by Francis Bedford, preserving original 16th-century French (Paris) brown calf side panels, gold tooled with title inscription, by Etienne Roffet.

Provenance

Unidentified purchase inscription: "XIII Kal. Octob. c/[con] /[con] LXXV [1585?] 4 sd" (front endleaf 4 verso); Hugh Perkins, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase/binding note: "bought at Bird's sale & rebacked for me by F. Bedford, the origi

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Classification

Binding Collection

Century

16th century

Department

Printed Books