Accession number
PML 195964
Creator
Patrizi, Francesco, 1413-1494.
Published
Paris : Pierre Vidoue for Jean Petit and Galliot du Pré, 1534.
Credit line
Purchased on the L. Colgate Harper D-1 Fund, 2013.
Notes
Colophon (leaf y5v): Hosce novem libros ... excudebat Petrus Vidouaens Calcographus solertissimus, impensis honestorum virorum Ioannis Parvi, ac Gallioti a Prato. Universitatis Parisie[n]sis Bibliopol[is]. Iura. Anno a Christo nato trigesimoquarto supra sesquimillesimum, ad Calendas Ianuarias.
Edited by Johannes Savigneus.
Woodcut of French king in council (leaf b8v).
Signatures: a⁶ b⁸ a-y⁶; 146 leaves, leaf y6 blank.
PML copy on vellum (approx. 31 x 20 cm).
PML copy with several illuminated initials excised and replaced with vellum blanks. Five initials (on ff. a2v, a4r, b6r, c3r, and d5r) excised and replaced during the printing process. Woodcut border and imprint information on title page (leaf a1r) scraped away.
Edited by Johannes Savigneus.
Woodcut of French king in council (leaf b8v).
Signatures: a⁶ b⁸ a-y⁶; 146 leaves, leaf y6 blank.
PML copy on vellum (approx. 31 x 20 cm).
PML copy with several illuminated initials excised and replaced with vellum blanks. Five initials (on ff. a2v, a4r, b6r, c3r, and d5r) excised and replaced during the printing process. Woodcut border and imprint information on title page (leaf a1r) scraped away.
Description
[14], cxxxi ℓ. : ill. ; 32 cm. (folio)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Illuminated architectural border (leaf 2a1r) with unidentified coat-of-arms (quartered blue and red) and illuminated initials; red ruling and yellow capital strokes.
Provenance
Clopotio, inscription (first fly leaf recto); unidentified signature, perhaps Clopotio (leaf y5v); Nicolas Garnier, gift inscription from Clopotio, 1556 (first fly leaf recto) and signatures (leaves a1r and y5v); J. & J. Leighton, 1905, lot 3881; Per Hierta (1864-1924), signature and inscription (front pastedown); Hierta sale, Björn and Börjesson, cat. 272, 26 Oct-30 Nov 1932; Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1972; Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, bookplate (front pastedown), purchased from Zeitlin, 1972; Vershbow sale, Christie's NY, 10 April 2013, lot 278; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Vershbow sale, 2013.
Binding
Sixteenth-century French calf with gilt fillet frame on top and bottom boards; gilt title and tooling on spine.
Classification
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