Accession number
PML 62432
Creator
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.
Published
Impresso in Ferrara : per maestro Gioua[n]ni Mazocco dal Bondeno, adi .xxii. de Aprile .M.D.XVI. [22 April 1516].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman, 1972.
Notes
Guide letters.
Imprint from colophon (leaf K7r).
PML copy lacking final blank (K8) and with title page (a1) remounted.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14.5 cm
Printer's device on title page.
Signatures: a-z⁸ A-K⁸: 264 leaves, leaf K8 blank.
Imprint from colophon (leaf K7r).
PML copy lacking final blank (K8) and with title page (a1) remounted.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14.5 cm
Printer's device on title page.
Signatures: a-z⁸ A-K⁸: 264 leaves, leaf K8 blank.
Description
262, [2] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts). ; 20.5 x 15 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Rubrication unrealized. No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified oval ink stamp with initials "G P" and coat-of-arms with three stars and a chevron (leaf a1r); George John Warren, 5th baron Vernon (1803-1866), monogram bookplate (front pastedown); Martin Bodmer (1899-1971), shelf mark: M. XIV. 7 (rear pastedown); H.P. Kraus, cat. 126, no 35; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman, 1972. .
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled brown morocco by Clarke & Bedford, all edges gilt; in 1/2 blue morocco case.
Classification
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Department