Accession number:
PML 15437
Published:
[Venice] : [Niccolo Zoppino], MDXXXIII [1533].
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, about 1907.
Description:
[6], CCLXXXII leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Notes:
20 woodcuts & border to title.
Binding:
16th-century French (Paris) brown calf, gold tooled with interlace and foliate pattern and painted in white, black, blue, red, and green, by the Grolier Cuspinianus Binder. Flat back with interlace pattern. Gilt edges. 4 ties, missing.
Provenance:
Unidentified purchase inscription and shelfmark: "A. Feb. 1852. Catal D." (front pastedown; maybe Ashburnham, see also PML 542); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), shelfmark: 2.C, his sale, Sotheby's, part I, 25 June 1897, lot 1392 (binding identified as Venetian); Damascene Moragand (Rahir et Cie), inventory no. 20252, and unidentified catalogue description no. 12; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Rahir, about 1907.
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