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Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq[ue] uiri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatu[m] exemplar ipsius autoris excusa.

Accession number
PML 5395
Creator
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.
Published
Apud inclytam Basileam : Apud Ioannem Frobenium, Dec. 1520.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Woodcuts: t.p. border; capitals; printer's device (verso of last leaf).
Mucius Prosenna border on title page by Hans Herman after a design by Holbein.
"Collected by Erasmus from scattered manuscripts, and ... printed by Froben under the supervision of ... Beatus Rhenanus"--DNB.
Originally printed by Froben as part of the third edition of Utopia, 1518.
Printer statement and date taken from colophon.
Leaves 2-3 signed x2, x3. Collation appears elsewhere (e.g., Adams) as a-n o; a2-3 cancels?.
"Progymnasmata Thomae Mori et Guilielmi Lilij sodalium": p. 7-15.
Description
115, [1] p. ; 22 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Light brown morocco binding by W. Pratt.
Classification
Department