Andreæ Alciati i. v. c. emblemata : elucidata doctissimis Claudii Minois commentariis, quibus additæ sunt eiusdem auctoris notæ posteriores, quorum indagine aperta omnium emblematum origine, sensuque intimo eruto, mens auctoris detegitur & explicatur, atque apertè obscura omnia, quæque dubitationem aliquam præ se ferebant, illustrantur, postrema hac editione à mendis quamplurimis, quibus superiores scatebant, omnia repurgata, atque in nitidiorem sensum reducta.

Accession number: 
PML 196203
Author: 
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.
Published: 
Lugduni : apud Haeredes Gulielmi Rouillii, 1614.
Description: 
[xix], [xv], 816, [24] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2015.
Notes: 

"V.C. Andreæ Alciati ... vita, per Claudium Minoem": [i]-[xv] p. in second numbering of preliminary pages.
"Notæ posteriores ad Alciati Emblemata, per Claudium Minoem ... Lugduni, Rouillii, 1614": p. 705-786, has separate title page.
Page-for-page resetting of Rouillé's 1600 edition.
196 woodcuts by Pierre Eskrich; first appeared in Rouillé's 1548 edition.

Binding: 
17th-century gilt-tooled full brown speckled calf over paper boards (17 x 11.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports, with the gilt initial IH on each board and spine.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
John Shirley (d. 1665/6), bookseller, inscription at rear board: "This booke is warranted perfit by mee John Sherley"; IH, monogram on binding; James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (1741-1816), bookplate; Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941), bookplate, 1912; multiple unidentified booksellers' inscriptions/codes; Sokol Books, cat. LXVII, no. 3; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sokol, Nov. 2015.
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