Accession number
PML 1208
Creator
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, mense Ianuario M.DII [January 1502].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴; A-D⁸ E²; a-i⁸: 152 leaves.
Imprint from colophon.
Imprint from colophon.
Description
[152] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Unidentified owner's name: ĪA ŌB (rear board; see also PML 1560); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Bohn, 1840, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: F2? (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
19th-century English brown morocco with 16th-century Italy (Venice?) gold-tooled morocco panels on front and rear boards, similar to bindings by the Mendoza binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?). Central cartouche on front board with authors' names tooled, rear board with initias: ĪA ŌB.
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