Accession number:
PML 20460.2
Published:
In Vinegia : Nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, & Andrea socero, M.D. XXXIIII, nel mese di Luglio [July 1534].
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Description:
48, [4] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon: In Vinegia, nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, & Andrea socero, M.D. XXXIIII, nel mese di Luglio.
Signatures: A-F⁸, G⁴.
Aldine device on t.p. and verso of final leaf.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Dedicated to Marchesa Cassandra Castriota di Atripalda, a close friend of Sannazaro.
Often bound with Sannazaro, Arcadia (1534).
Binding:
16th-century French gilt-tooled brown morocco, based on Italian models, for Jean Grolier. With gilt-tooled title: "Arcadia del/ Sannazaro / Sonetti e/ Canzoni/ del ditto" and "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" (front board) and Grolier's motto: "Portio mea do/mine sit in/ terra vi/venti/vm" (rear board). Repairs to leather/tooling on upper cover.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Initials and printer's marks colored in gold.
Provenance:
Jean Grolier (1479-1565), binding with mottos: "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" and "Portio mea domine sit in terra viventium" stamped on covers, probably from his second library, after 1538; Méry de Vic (d. 1622), one of the inheritors of Grolier's library (about 3000 volumes), through inheritance to Dominique de Vic (d. 1662), inscription (title page), sold by auction, Paris, 1676; John Dent (1760-1826), signature, 1825 (front endleaf 2 recto), sale, Evans (London), 29 March 1827, lot 412 for £16.0.0 to Clarke; William Beckford (1760-1844), inherited by his daughter: Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 3, 2 July 1883, lot 1730, for £125 to Quaritch; Morgand & Fatout, cat. VI, p. 794, no. 4447; Edouard Rahir, 1904; [Pierpont Morgan, 1905 -- noted by Belle Greene on front endleaf in provenance trail, perhaps a gift to Mrs. Hollins, a close friend of Morgan's]; Evelina Hollins (1854-1938), London, 1907, signature (front endleaf 2 recto, and noted by Belle Greene: Mrs. H.B. Hollins, NY, 1906); Anderson Auction Co. sale, 17 Feb. 1919, lot 886; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased in 1919.
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