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Accession number:
PML 51314
Published:
[Italy] : [no printer], [1562]
Credit:
Purchased in 1960.
Description:
XXXII plates : engravings ; 43 cm (fol)
Notes:
Publication date from Schlosser & Walcher Casotti.
Engraved throughout.
Morgan copy with one additional double plate, "Forma partis Divi Petri Vaticano, Michael Angelus Bonarotis, inventor", engraved by Vincenzo Luchino, dated 1564, bound at end.
Binding:
French (Paris) olive morocco, gold tooled in an early "fanfare" style about 1567-68, attributed to the Atelier au Vase by Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux.
Variant Title:
Regola delli cinqve ordini d'architettvra
Provenance:
One of more than eighty volumes known to have been in the library of Claude III de Laubespine, whose collection passed to his sister Madeleine, wife of Nicolas de Villeroy (with an inventory number (cote brune) 467 probably made on the occasion of Madeleine de Villeroy's death in 1596; see Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux, "Ni Grolier, ni Mahieu: Laubespine," Bulletin du bibliophile (2004): 63-88); unidentified shelfmark: H.41/1 (front pastedown); purchase inscription: "achepté 12 livres le 3 nouembre 1701" (front endleaf 1 recto); Librairie Damascène Morgand inventory number: 855 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from AB Sandbergs Bokhandel (Stockholm), Dec. 1960.
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