Sonecti capituli canzone sextine stanze et strambocti / composti perlo excellentissimo Francescho Cei, ciptadino fiorentino in laude di Clitia.

Accession number: 
PML 199049
Author: 
Cei, Francesco, 1471-1505, author.
Published: 
Impresso in Firenze : Per Philippo di Giunta cartolaio ciptadino fiorentino, anno ab incarnatione Christi MCCCCCIII [1503].
Credit: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description: 
62 unnumbered leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes: 

First printing of a popular collection of poems in several genres of poesia cortigiana, in which the author (as Alcebano) confesses his love for Cassandra di Bartolomeo Bartolini Salimbeni (as Clizia).
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ a-g⁸ h².
Errata on verso of leaf [4].
Text printed in italics; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.
Not in Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum; or Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries.

Binding: 
Italian binding, ca. 1520, brown morocco (160 x 100 mm), panel stamp composed of two interlaced lines forming frame and interior of tendrils, leaves and arabesques, in center medallion bust portrait of Julius Caesar facing right with toga and lituus and words DIVI IVLI, impressed areas painted with liquid gold, traces of four pairs of ties, gilt and gauffered edges, spine with two thick bands, saltires in gilt in central compartment. Housed in a brown cloth box.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Purchase inscription, “Ex libris Joannii Francisci Lancellotti de Staphylo qui libras venetas septem,” in pen on final verso; annotations in ink and pencil.

Provenance: 
Giovanni Francesco Lancellotti (1721-1788), with sale inscription on final verso: “Ex libris Joannii Francisci Lancellotti de Staphylo qui libras venetas septem”; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 17-20 July 1922, lot 243, £7, to Leo S. Olschki, Florence; Libreria Durini, Milan (De Marinis); T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2023, lot 286.
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Classification: 
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Department: 
Printed Books