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Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii Galli ciuis Ro. In decem libros M. Vitruuii Pollionis De architectura annotationes ... : cum indicibus Graeco & Latino locupletissimis.

Accession number
PML 76391
Creator
Philandrier, Guillaume, 1505-1565.
Published
[Impressum Romae : Apud Io. Andream Dossena Thaurinen[sem], anno Domini 1544]
Credit line
Mrs. Francis Kettaneh in memory of her husband,
Description
[16], 369, [39] p. : ill.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Errata: p. [2]-[5] at end.
Includes indexes.
First edition.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Rome) brown morocco gold tooled with interlace border, foliate ornaments and veritcal medallion at center with Apollo & Pegasus, attributed by Anthony Hobson to Niccolò Franzese.
Variant title
Gvlielmi Philandri Castilionii Galli civis Ro. In decem libros M. Vitruuii Pollionis De architectura annotationes
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); Francis Kettaneh, given to: Pierpont Morgan Library
Classification
Century
Department