Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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Accession number
PML 125037
Creator
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
Published
Parisiis, Excudebat Christianus Wechelus, sub scuto Basiliensi, in uico Iacobaeo. M. D. XXXIII. [i.e. 1533]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
First published 1531.
Description
[2], [8], 496, [25] p., 2 ℓ. 21 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription inside upper cover unidentified. Quotations from Horace inside upper cover and on first flyleaf ("Omnis e[ni]m res"), other inscription on first flyleaf unidentified. Latin inscriptions in contemporary hand on upper and lower flyleaves and inside lower cover. Extensive contemporary annotations in Latin within text and on lower flyleaves with quotations from Seneca, Ovid, and Cicero. Purchase inscription for 13s inside lower cover. Drawing of man and skull inside lower cover. Paper label with title pasted inside lower cover.
Provenance
"Martinus Regnart me habet" inscribed inside lower cover, "M. Regnart" inscription on verso of first flyleaf, heavily obscured. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cen. France).
Binding
Contemporary leather (calf?) over paperboards, blind tooled; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label.
Classification
Department