Accession number:
PML 48492
Published:
Basileia : par' Hierōnymō tō Phrōveniō kai Nikolaō tō Episkopiō, [1532]
Credit:
Gift of the Fellows, 1957.
Description:
245, [3] pages ; 21 cm (4to)
Notes:
Imprint from colophon, dated in Greek characters: [alpha phi gamma beta]
Title page with imprint: Basiliae, anno MD XXXII, with Froben's device.
Froben's device on final page.
Edited by Sigmundus Gelenius.
Froben's device on t.p. and in colophon.
Spine title: Callimach Hymni Græce.
Text in Greek, preface in Latin.
Binding:
16th-century French gilt-tooled white calf, with Beaulieu arms and inscription: "Elle ma faict Beaulieu," with initials "P de B" on lower board (owner unidentified; attributed to Pecking Crow Binder. Gilt edges. 2 ties, missing. Restored by B[énard] of Paris, June 1893.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Initial Z (leaf B1r) illuminated in gold.
Variant Title:
Callimachi Hymni Græce
Provenance:
Baeulieu, armorial binding; Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778-1841), his sale, Evans, 19 February-23 March 1827, lot 768, bought-in by Sowerby for 19s; Thomas Shadford Walker (1834-1885), Catalogue of a loan collection of ancient & modern bookbindings, exhibited at the Liverpool Art Club (Liverpool 1882), no. 67, his sale, Sotheby's, 23-24 June 1886, lot 95, bought-in by Bernard Quaritch for £1.5; Joannes Gennadius (1844-1932), his sale, Sotheby's, 28 March-7 April 1895, lot 697, bought-in by J. & J. Leighton for £4.17.6; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper as the gift of the Fellows, March 1957.
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