Accession number
PML 338
Creator
Bartolommeo da li Sonetti, active 1485.
Object title
Isolario [Italian verse].
Published
[Venice : Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis?, not after 1485]; [about 1486]
Description
(4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
49 woodcut maps. For dating see note in BMC, which postulates a date of completion before the death of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo in 1485. CIBN dates about 1486. On the variants, see C.F. Bühler in Gb Jb 1957 pp.94-97.
Checklist: "JPM 338."
Checklist: "JPM 338."
Binding
Contemporary Italian brown morocco, tooled in blind with strapwork designs in a central panel; two clasps, in slipcase.
Provenance
From the libraries of Baron Achille Seilliere, with the bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Mello (sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 103, to James Toovey for £27); William Morris and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
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