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Accession number: 
PML 1103
Author: 
Prudentius, 348-
Published: 
Parisiis : Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, 1562.
Description: 
540, [2] pages ; 13 cm (12mo)
Binding: 
16th-century French morocco, gold tooled in foliate and early fanfare design, over paper boards (12.5 x 8.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, perhaps by the Atelier au Vase bindery. Flat back. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Provenance: 
Jean Ballesdens (1595-1675), signatures (front pastedown and title page); Stuart Bickerstaffe (1661-1703), 1689, signature (front endleaf 1 recto), his library sold with the library of Robert Hooke, 29 April 1703; Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelfmark: [?] 13: 109 (front pastedown), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale: Puttick & Simpson, part IV, 6 Nov. 1882, lot 10266 to Ellis and White for £4.5.0, then sold, Frederick Startridge Ellis sale, Sotheby's, 16 Nov. 1885, lot 680 for £6.15.0; James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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