Strozii poetae, pater et filius.

Accession number:

PML 51588.3

Author:

Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano, 1425?-1505.

Published:

[Basel] : [Bartholomeus Westheimer], [approximately 1537]

Credit:

Gift of the Fellows, 1961.

Description:

[8], 259, [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)

Notes:

A counterfeit of the Aldine edition of 1513. cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. Title vignette is imitation of the Aldine device.
Imprint from Renouard; Adams supplies possible date of ca. 1540. VD 16 dates as ca. 1545.
Edited by Aldo Pio Manuzio.
Includes Aldo's dedication to Lucrezia Borgia on leaves a₁v-a₃r, and his 33-verse epitaph for Ercole Strozzi (murdered in the streets of Ferrara in June 1508, within days of his marriage to Barbara Torelli, young widow of Ercole Bentivoglio) on recto and verso of leaf 101.
"Oratio tvmvltvario habita a Coelio Calcagnino in fvnere Hercvlis Strozae": leaves 255-259.
Woodcuts: dolphin and anchor title vignette is imitation of the Aldine device.
Printed in italic type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.
Signatures: a-z⁸ A-K⁸ L⁴.

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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Classification:

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Department:

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