Accession number:
PML 51588.1
Published:
Francofvrti ad Moenum : Per Nicolaum Basee, M. D. LXXII [1572].
Credit:
Gift of the Fellows, 1961.
Description:
[12], 223, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Name of publisher supplied from colophon, sig. e7v.
Caption title, sig.[device]2r: Bartholomaeus Lombardus Veronensis De poetica.
Binding:
Dos-à-dos (back-to-back or twin) binding of brown calf, tooled in gilt and blind, with sunken panels with rectangles of vellum stamped with allegorical panels (Medicine and Astronomy, Faith and Hope) and colored, with gauffered, gilt, and painted edges; bound by Mathias Juncker of Wittenberg, with Astronomia panel signed "15 M+I 78" at bottom. In brown cloth box.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Marginal notes throughout the volumes.
Provenance:
Unidentified owner: M.G.H.C., gilt-tooled initials on covers; Friderich Enslin, gift inscription from his brother Christian, 1625 (front pastedown and Strozzi title page); L.G. Zenne, signature, "Stub. Denk.," 1792 (Strozzi title page); Richard von König-Warthausen (1830-1911), given in 1861 by "Lollo" [Theodor von] Heuglin, with printed/painted bookplate dated 1865 (front pastedowns); Lucien Graux (1878-1944), sale, Paris, part II, 1957, lot 120; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Fellows, 1961.
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