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De ivsticia pingenda. On the painting of justice; a dialogue between Mantegna and Momus. The Latin text of 1515 reprinted with a translation, an introd. and notes by James Wardrop.

Accession number
PML 49758
Creator
Fiera, Battista, 1450-1540.
Published
London, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1957.
Credit line
Gift; Mrs. James Wardrop; 1958.
Notes
"This edition ... is limited to 200 copies, printed on 'Maidstone,' a handmade paper ... The typography is by Anne Hickmott and the binding designed by Brian Young."
Reprinted from Fiera's Hymni divini. Mantua, 1515--(Proctor 13840).
Errata slip inserted.
This copy "out of series."
An imaginary conversation, probably based on reminiscences, about a fresco painted by Andrea Mantegna in a Vatican chapel about 1488. The painting is no longer extant. The facsimile is "a Latin distich in [Fiera's] ... hologaph," with his signature.
Description
50 p. port. 22 cm.
Binding
1/2 black leather, green boards, gilt.
Classification
Department