Accession number
PML 1446
Creator
Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574.
Published
[Venice] : In Academia Veneta, M.D. LVIII. [1558]
Notes
This work is one of several which were published by the Venetian Academy under the direction of Paul Manutius.
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-S⁸ T⁴ (M3 missigned N3): 156 leaves.
Numerous errors in foliation, including leaves 5 and 7 misnumbered 6 and 8.
Engraved title vignette: device of the Venetian Academy (angel with trumpet).
Includes index.
Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-S⁸ T⁴ (M3 missigned N3): 156 leaves.
Numerous errors in foliation, including leaves 5 and 7 misnumbered 6 and 8.
Engraved title vignette: device of the Venetian Academy (angel with trumpet).
Includes index.
Description
[8], 148 leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Bernardino Corona, inscription: "Bernardinum Corona possidet hunc librum," crossed out and added in a different hand below "est S. Giorgii maioris Venetii," followed by "D. Paschalis 1615," "Est Sancti Giorgii Maioris Venetiarum," and "ad usum D Hilarii," 17th century (leaf A1r); Angelo Calogerà (ca. 1696-ca. 1766), librarian and then abbot of St. Michael at Murano then prior of San Giorgio Maggiore, bookplate (leaf A1v); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), shelf mark: D1 (front pastedown); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
Original limp vellum.
Classification
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