Emblemata / Andreas Alciati.

Accession number: 
PML 127135
Author: 
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.
Published: 
Frankfurt am Main : Georgius Corvinus for Sigismundus Feyerabend & Simon Huter, 1567.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Description: 
1 v. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Notes: 

14 arms in colors (oil- and water-based), some heightened in gold or silver, 2 full-length portraits in the same media, and an emblematic device.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.

Binding: 
Bound in limp German vellum, stamped in black with traces of gilding in the lettering with initials "ISVF" and the year "159Z"; imperial eagle on front cover and unidentified arms on rear cover both within oval frames set inside arabesques; blue edges.
Provenance: 
Inscribed on t.p. "Est Johannis Stephani Francofurtensis: with later stamp in blue ink of the Gräfl[ich] Stolbergische Bibliothek z. Wernigerode", with arms.
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