Accession number:
PML 34682
Published:
[Rome] : [Johann Besicken], [approximately 1500]
Description:
[6] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1938.
Notes:
Title from title-page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Besicken's types 1:87G (text) and 8:106G (title).
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves, leaf a6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
2 columns, 35 lines. Woodcuts, printed initials.
Sonetti d'amore is in ottave rime; El desperato per amore in terze rime.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 13.4 cm.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (21.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Sonetti d'amore
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Feb. 1938.
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