Accession number
PML 52037
Creator
Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.
Published
Saumur, France : Thomas Portau, 1611.
Credit line
Gift of Dr. Silvain S. Brunschwig, 1961.
Notes
Title-page vignette.
Bound in are four vellum sheets, two at the front and two at the end, with pen drawings of Pythagoras, Simonides, Heraclitus, Democritus, Aristotle, Virgil, Homer, and Cicero, each occupying a full page; probably executed by D'Hardoncourt.
Bound in are four vellum sheets, two at the front and two at the end, with pen drawings of Pythagoras, Simonides, Heraclitus, Democritus, Aristotle, Virgil, Homer, and Cicero, each occupying a full page; probably executed by D'Hardoncourt.
Description
13, 607 p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 35 cm
Provenance
D'Hardoncourt, signature (title page and on drawing of Heraclitus); unidentified English sale catalogue (Sotheby's?) description (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Dr. Silvain S. Brunschwig, 1961.
Binding
Contempoary red morocco, gilt, fanfare ornaments in the corners and central wreath in style of Clovis Eve.
Classification
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