Accession number
PML 1271
Published
Venetiis : In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Ivlio 1516.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Dedicatory preface by Egnazio addressed to Jacobo Minutio dated: 10 June 1517.
Signatures: HS⁸ (HS7-8 blank); Ab-Hi⁸ (Hi8 blank); AaA-DdD⁸ EeE⁴; a-z⁸ aa-oo⁸.
Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
First published in Milan by Philippus de Lavagnia in 1475.
Dedicatory preface by Egnazio addressed to Jacobo Minutio dated: 10 June 1517.
Signatures: HS⁸ (HS7-8 blank); Ab-Hi⁸ (Hi8 blank); AaA-DdD⁸ EeE⁴; a-z⁸ aa-oo⁸.
Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
First published in Milan by Philippus de Lavagnia in 1475.
Description
[108], 295, [1] leaves (leaves [7-8, 72] blank) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Maffeo Pinelli (1736-1785), sale, 2 March 1789; August Henry Fitzroy, fourth Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), purchased at Pinelli sale by [Peter] Elmsely for Grafton for £3.10.0, sales, Sotheby's 18 Dec. 1811 and Evans 6 June 1815; Richard Heber (1773-1833), sale, Wheatley's, part V, 19 Jan. 1835, lot 1102; Archibald Acheson, third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased at Heber sale, shelf mark: D1; James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century gilt-tooled brown morocco over wooden boards, gilt and gauffered edges; repaired. 4 clasps, missing.
Classification
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