Gotofredi Torini Biturici, in filiam chariss[imam], Virguncularum elegantiss. : Epitaphia & dialogi.

Accession number: 
PML 199351.13
Author: 
Tory, Geoffroy, 1480?-1533, author.
Published: 
Impressum Parrhisijs : [Simon de Colines], 15 février 1523.
Description: 
8 unnumbered leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial. NNPM
Notes: 

Verses by Tory on the death of his daughter, Agnes, who died on August 25, 1522; dedicated to Philibert Babou and printed by Simon de Colines. Cf. Bernard.
Title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut printer's device of Tory at end.
Signatures: A⁸: 8 leaves.
"Impressum Parrhisijs è regione scholae Decretotum Anno do, M.D. XXIII. Die.XV. mensis Febr."--Colophon.
Library's copy forms part of a Sammelband of 20 works (PML 199351.1-20) gathered and bound by Benoît Le Court (died ca 1559), mostly printed in Paris, late 1490s to 1520s, and containing works of poetry, obituaries and invective. NNPM

Variant Title: 

In filiam charissimam

Provenance: 
Benoît Le Court (died ca 1559), his note of purchase "Emptus xxi s vi d" on inside front cover (part of his library sold by auction in 1588); Pierre Bergé & associés & Dominique Courvoisier with Dominique Laucournet, sale, Paris, 31 May 2005, lot 76. acquisition: Purchased in 2020 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1140. NNPM
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