Accession number:
PML 1151
Uniform title:
Greek anthology.
Published:
Venetiis in aedibus Aldi mense Nouembri. M.DIII [November 1503].
Description:
[290] pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Text in Greek.
Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.
Edited by Aldo Manuzio; based on the Florence editio princes of 1494 with a few additions.
Binding:
16th-century Italian blind-tooled morocco, over Greek-style wooden boards. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 2 braided ties, missing, with fore-edge pins.
Variant Title:
Anthologia diaphoron epigrammaton ...
Provenance:
Marin Sanudo (1466-1536), verse inscriptions, including "In simulatorem," "In coenum et claudum," "In parsimonium," and "Pere felicem" (front endleaves 2r-3r; with inserted manuscript attestation of Sanudo verses, by Rawlins Brown(?), 17 Sept. 1839); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased 1840, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: A2 (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.
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