Accession number
PML 199054
Creator
Bode, Hermann.
Published
Basileae : apud Bartholomeum VVesthemervm, et Nicolavm Brylingervm, Anno M.D XXXVII [1537].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Bark, 2023.
Notes
Imprint from colophon. Printer's device on final page.
Description
861 (with errors, i.e. 967) [57] pages ; 16.5 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript title on top edge, over gilding.
Provenance
Ramey family, inscription: "ex libris Ioannis Claudii Ramey subdeaconi anno 1679," through inheritance to France de Ramey de Sugny Bark and Dennis Bark, donated to: Morgan Library & Museum, Nov. 2023.
Binding
16th-century French borwn calf, with plaquettes (top board: Hercules between Minerva and Venus after original plaquette by Valerio Belli, see De Ricci, Dreyfus collection, no. 368 and Kress collection, no. 156; lower board: Sacrifice to Bacchus by Giovanni Bernardi de Castelbolognese, see Molinier, Plaquettes de la Renaissance, no. 329/not in Dreyfus or Kress collection) and blind- and gold-tooling, over paper boards (16.5 x 11 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Gilt edges.
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