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Hypnerotomachie, ov Discours du songe de Poliphile, deduisant comme amour le combat à l'occasion de Polia. Soubz la fiction de quoy l'aucteur monstrant que toutes choses terrestres ne sont que vanité, traicte de plusieurs matieres profitables, & dignes de memoire. Nouuellement traduict de langage italien en francois.

Accession number
PML 1102
Creator
Colonna, Francesco, -1527.
Published
A Paris : Pour Iaques Keruer à la Licorne, rue s. Iaques. 1561.
Notes
Colophon: Imprime povr Iaqves Kerver, marchant libraire iuré en l'vniuersité de Paris, par Iehan le Blanc, le xi. iour de iuillet, l'an. M.D.LXI.
Edited by Jacques Gohory and Jean Martin. The translation has been attributed to Robert de Lenoncourt.
Illustrations attributed to J. Goujon or J. Cousin.
Leaf 102 misnumbered 103.
The author's name is given in a note by Jacques Gohory on verso of t.-p. and is revealed in an acrostic formed by the large initials throughout the volume: Poliam frater Franciscvs Colvmna peramavit.
Title within ornamental border; monogram of Kerver in t.-p. border, and his device on last leaf.
Description
6 p.l., 157 numbered leaves : 1 leaf illustrated, 2 pl. on 1 . : 33 cm
Provenance
Toovey collection.
Binding
Red morocco, tooled.
Classification
Department