Accession number
PML 75853.2-3
Creator
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Published
[Basel] : Petri Pernae typographi Basil. opera ac studio, 1578 [i.e. 1576-1577].
Credit line
Purchased in 1979.
Notes
"Ex Perniana officina sumptibus Henrici Petri, & Petri Pernae, anno 1576" -- colophon to v. 1.
Vol. 2 has imprint: Basileæ: Ex officina typographia Petri Pernae suis & Henrici Petri sumptibus, 1577.
Series of portraits copied from paintings in the collection of Giovio, with his biographies. Giovio's portrait collection was lost after his death, but copies were made for Cosimo I d'Medici and are now in the Uffizi.
Includes index.
Vol. 2 has imprint: Basileæ: Ex officina typographia Petri Pernae suis & Henrici Petri sumptibus, 1577.
Series of portraits copied from paintings in the collection of Giovio, with his biographies. Giovio's portrait collection was lost after his death, but copies were made for Cosimo I d'Medici and are now in the Uffizi.
Includes index.
Description
2 volumes ([12], 427, [1]; [8], 176, [26], 177-225 pages) : portraits (woodcut) ; 34 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Antonini Nuco[?], signature (title page); Alberto Maffei, signature (front endleaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased Jan. 1979.
Binding
Marbled boards backed in brown calf.
Classification
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Department