Cortigiana : comedia / dil divino Pietro Aretino.

Accession number: 
PML 15497
Author: 
Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556.
Published: 
Stampata in Milano : per Io. Antonio da Castelliono, l'anno del MCCCCCXXXV [1535]
Description: 
[96] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes: 

Signatures: A-N⁸.
Morgan copy imperfect: missing leaf N8(?).

Binding: 
16th-century French brown morocco, gilt tooled in interlace pattern and painted in black, red, green, and white, with foliate tools on flat spine, by Claude de Picques for Thomas Mahieu, with Mahieu's monogram on back cover (monogram previously attributed to Hieronymus Fioraventius).
Provenance: 
Thomas Mahieu, monogram ("A E G H I M N O P R S T V" for "Thomas Mahieu. Ingratis servire nephas"); Petrus Fauré, inscription: Ex libris Petri faure (front pastedown); unidentified seminary library stamp: "Bibliotheca Seminar[? ???]" with a radiating star (front endleaf 1 verso and title page); Joseph Henry Fitzhenry (1838-1913); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Fitzhenry, 1907.
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