Accession number
PML 152786
Published
Venetiis [Venice] : Ad instantiam Bartholomæi Contrini, cum priuilegio annorum uiginti, MDLXVII [1567]
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"Venetiis, Ioan. Grypius excudebat, ad instantiam Bartholomæi Contrini. MDLXVII"--colophon.
Title page printed in black and red.
Title vignette (coat of arms of Vicenza) in red and black; historiated initials (6-lines)
Signatures: a⁴ A-2E⁸ 2F⁴.
Leaves 3, 21, 53, 85, and 169 incorrectly numbered 4, 16, 35, 83, and 177, respectively.
Tipped in at the back, two broadsides with statutes, issued by the city of Vicenza and signed: "Data in nostro Duc. Palatio die 16. Decembris 1594" - listing the days of saints throughout the year - and: "Data in nostro Ducali Palatio, die 3. Decembris Ind. septima 1579"
"Liber nouus partium priuilegium ciuitatis Vicentiae in prima deditione", including own index, on fol. 180-[228].
"338"--in black ink on label with blue border, pasted inside upper cover.
Title page printed in black and red.
Title vignette (coat of arms of Vicenza) in red and black; historiated initials (6-lines)
Signatures: a⁴ A-2E⁸ 2F⁴.
Leaves 3, 21, 53, 85, and 169 incorrectly numbered 4, 16, 35, 83, and 177, respectively.
Tipped in at the back, two broadsides with statutes, issued by the city of Vicenza and signed: "Data in nostro Duc. Palatio die 16. Decembris 1594" - listing the days of saints throughout the year - and: "Data in nostro Ducali Palatio, die 3. Decembris Ind. septima 1579"
"Liber nouus partium priuilegium ciuitatis Vicentiae in prima deditione", including own index, on fol. 180-[228].
"338"--in black ink on label with blue border, pasted inside upper cover.
Description
[4], 227, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 32 x 22 cm (fol.) + 2 broadsides.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf tooled in gold, each cover with tassels, curves, leaves, flowers, hands, bees, etc., and onlaid central cartouches of red morocco with the arms of Vicenza , and legends: "Grati Animi In Signum" (upper cover); and "Vicentiæ Civitatis" (lower cover). Spine with five raised bands.
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