Accession number:
PML 1488
Published:
Venetijs : Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f., MDLXVI [1566]
Credit:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Description:
[52], 399, [1], 107, [1] leaves ; 33 cm
Notes:
Contains scholia and index.
First ed. published in 1555. This edition is a reprint.
Printer's device and colophon on leaf after main text and before scholia.
Sigonio's scholia have special t.p., separate paging and signatures.
Binding:
16th-century French brown morocco with gold tooled and interlace design, painted strapwork (maybe later?), over paper boards (33 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by the Mahieu Aesop Binder; heavily restored, new endpapers.
Variant Title:
T. Livij Patavini Historiarum ab vrbe condita libri qvi extant XXXV
Provenance:
Binding probably commissioned by Claude de Laubespine III, with his characteristic spine title (this edition is listed among the books in the Laubespine-Villeroy family library at Conflans, see Isabelle de Conihout, Poetry and patronage (2021), p. 26); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased from Bohn for £5.5.0 in 1835, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: C5 (front pastedown), 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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