Author:
Tiraboschi, Jacopo, author.
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
50 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, illustrations ; 165 x 114 mm; binding: 172 x 119 mm
Binding:
Early plaquette binding of Paduan light reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards (172 x 119 mm), ca. 1479-1481, possibly by Felice Feliciano (1433-1479; cf. Hobson), with filigree borders, corners and centerpiece, the ground of the center and borders are painted blue, but the corners are laid down on a green silk ground, a central profile portrait of Antinous (?) with long flowing hair, taken from a plaquette, spine with 3 full bands, vellum endleaves, plain edges, with title lettered on bottom edge. Heavily damaged, including loss of spine covering, signficant losses to pierced leather layer, and wormholes to wooden boards.
Provenance:
Niccolò Lippomano (died 1517; inscription in red ink "Nicolai Lipomani et amicorum" on verso of first endleaf); Biblioteca Marchesi Capilupi, Villa di Suzzara (Mantua); Libreria antiquaria T. De Marinis & C., Florence (Catalogue 7: Manuscrits et livres rares [1907], item 25 & Pl. IIIb); Eugénie ("Jenny") Finaly (née Ellenberger) (1850-1938); inserted exlibris of her uncle, Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), his exlibris no. 59290; by descent to her daughter, Julie Florence de Cossette (née Finaly) (1877-1968), m. 1903 Henri Raoul Jean Eugène Vicomte de Cossette, (1876-1933); by descent to their son, Pierre Raoul Ghislain Horace, Vicomte de Cossette (1914-1980); Christian Galantaris, Paris; Bernard Malle (1929-2008), penciled initials "B M" in circle on lower pastedown; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York, 11 October 2023, lot 85.