Accession number
PML 1211
Creator
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Published
[Venice] : [Bartolomeo Zanetti], [after 18 December 1534]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
At head of title: "Catvllvs, Tibvllvs, Propertivs, Gallvs".
Imprint supplied from Kiss.
The last edition of Catullus published by Hieronymus Avantius or Girolamo Avanzi, dated about 1534-1540. This edition contains only the newly emended text of three poems of Catullus, a biography of the poet, and three epigrams celebrating this new edition. Cf. Daniel Kiss, p. 269-271.
Printer's mark of Bartolomeo Zanetti of Casterzago near Brescia, fl. Venice 1535-1543, on p. 1.
Avantius dedicated his edition to Alessandro Farnese, grandson of Pope Paul III.
Imprint supplied from Kiss.
The last edition of Catullus published by Hieronymus Avantius or Girolamo Avanzi, dated about 1534-1540. This edition contains only the newly emended text of three poems of Catullus, a biography of the poet, and three epigrams celebrating this new edition. Cf. Daniel Kiss, p. 269-271.
Printer's mark of Bartolomeo Zanetti of Casterzago near Brescia, fl. Venice 1535-1543, on p. 1.
Avantius dedicated his edition to Alessandro Farnese, grandson of Pope Paul III.
Description
48 leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified inscriptions, 1583: "A di 10 Febraro [15]83" (front endleaf 1 recto) and "Ad usum mei friterini qui vocor de Ariendis(?) Amicorumque suorum etc. Anno domini 1583 die veros mensis Februarii" (rear endleaf 1 verso); unidentified shelfmark: X.I.8.10 (front endleaf 1 recto); Victor Child Villiers (1845-1915), 7th Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown), Osterley Park sale: Sotheby's, 6 May 1885, lot 393 for £4.0.0; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), shelfmark: B2 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century Venetian gold-tooled red morocco by the Fugger Binder (see Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, App. 8, no. 55).
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