Accession number
PML 22721
Creator
Ghisi, Andrea.
Published
In Venetia : Per Euangelista Deuchino, M. DC. XVI [1616].
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title printed in black and red; woodcuts printed in red.
Plates foliated A-V and Z.
Dedicated to the Venetian doge Giovanni Bembo, "Zuane Bembo Dose per Meriti," dated 24 June 1616.
Consists of suites of figures arranged so as to make it possible for a person to determine which of the figures has been selected mentally by some other person. The designs are in large part taken from the so-called Mantegna or Baldini Tarocchi cards.
One quire of 30 leaves.
Morgan copy untrimmed.
Morgan copy with "Dichiaratione" leaf a cancel.
Morgan copy bound out of order: plates H, K, I, M, L, N (i.e. bifolium K.L bound before I.M).
Plates foliated A-V and Z.
Dedicated to the Venetian doge Giovanni Bembo, "Zuane Bembo Dose per Meriti," dated 24 June 1616.
Consists of suites of figures arranged so as to make it possible for a person to determine which of the figures has been selected mentally by some other person. The designs are in large part taken from the so-called Mantegna or Baldini Tarocchi cards.
One quire of 30 leaves.
Morgan copy untrimmed.
Morgan copy with "Dichiaratione" leaf a cancel.
Morgan copy bound out of order: plates H, K, I, M, L, N (i.e. bifolium K.L bound before I.M).
Description
[6] pages, [2] blank leaves, [22] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31.5 cm (fol)
Provenance
Unidentified stamp, abraded (front pastedown) and shelfmark: L. II. 35 (front cover); "dupplicato" inscribed on front cover; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Voynich, June 1925.
Binding
Contemporary carta rustica, sewn through a rough paperboard (cartoncino) wrapper.
Classification
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