Accession number:
PML 1511-13
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, [May 1515-February 1516]
Description:
3 v.
Notes:
Colophon, [v. 1]: Venetiis In Aedibus Aldi, Et Andreae Soceri Mense Maoi. M.D.XV. [v. 2]: Venetiis In Aedibus Aldi, Et Andreae Soceri Mense Ianuario M.D.XVI. [v. 3]: Venetiis In Aedibus Aldi, Et Andreae Soceri Mense Februario M.D.XVI.
Roman and italic type; 30 lines. With catchwords, foliation, headlines, initial indicators, registers and signature marks. Printer's mark on t.p. and verso of last leaf of [v. 1-2] and on t.p., f. 1a and f. 204b of [v. 3]
Each volume has special t.p. only.
Edited by Andrea Navagero.
Binding:
Volumes 1 and 3: 16th-century Venetian gold-tooled dark brown morocco by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?) (see Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, App. 5, nos. 103-04). Gilt and gauffered edges.
Provenance:
The 3 volumes were assembled by Renouard (or before?) and come from different collections. Vol. 1: "HĒR ST̄A", tooled on front cover; vol. 3: "P.F.P." tooled on front cover and Bibliothèque du Prytanée (La Fleche, France), stamp (vol. 3, title page). All 3 volumes: Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), his sale: Bibliotheca Aldina, Evans, 26 June 1828, lot 394 for £7.7.0 to: Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel and shelfmark: C3 (front pastedown of vol. 2 only), entire library purchased in 1878 by: 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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