L'assedio e la presa di Caffa.

Accession number: 
PML 42128
Uniform title: 
Caffa.
Published: 
[Trent] : [Albrecht Kunne], [after 7 June 1475].
Description: 
[6] leaves ; 17.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1950.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Kunne's type 3:80G.
On the printer, see BMC (originally assigning the printing to Schindelyp, publisher of Kunne's edition of Tuberinus) and Rhodes(Vicenza) pp.28-29. GW and Goff assigned to Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea.
Signatures: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 17.1 x 12.5 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century decorative paper over paper boards (17.5 x 13 cm), long-stitch on 4 sewing stations by Deborah Evetts, 1984. Plain paper pastedowns, plain and decorative paper endleaves.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: L'aspra crudeltà del Turco a quegli di caffa

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Seville, Bibliotheca Colombina; Hyppolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), his sale, Paris, 13 April 1891, lot 802; Britwell Court Library, formed by William Henry Miller (d. 1848), through inheritance to: Sydney Richardson Christie-Miller (1874-1931), Britwell Court sale, Sotheby's 31 July 1917, lot 306; Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944), bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding; previous provenance cited in Martini Catologo (1934), no. 18, which at that time bound with Cermisone, Ricette contra la pestilenza (Milan: Valdarfer, ca. 1483), ISTC ic00405000, Martini separated and sold to Harvard, Countway Library, retaining Destailleur bookplate); Piepront Morgan Library, purchased from W.H. Schab, Dec. 1950.
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