Accession number:
PML 16168
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Iulio M.D.XVI [July 1516].
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1909.
Description:
[4], 282, [2] p. ; 31 cm (fol)
Binding:
16th-century Italian brown morocco, with raised headcaps at top and bottom in the Greek style, the author's name in Greek tooled in gilt on upper board and with gold-tooled armorial of Filippo Strozzi and Clarice de' Medici; all edges gilt. Renewed pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Inscribed on title page: Fr[atr]is Leonardi Coquaei Aurelii co[n]fessarii M[agnae] Ducissae Christianae a Lothari[n]gia, 1606.
Provenance:
Filippo Strozzi the younger (1489-1538) and Clarice de' Medici (1489-1528), armorial binding; Léonard Cocqueau (1550-1616), Augustinian, confessor of Christina of Lorraine (1565-1637), inscription: "Fr[atr]is Leonardi Coquaei Aurelii co[n]fessarii M. Ducillae Christianae a Lothari[n]gia, 1606" (title page), library likely passed to: Florence, Augustinian convent of San Spirito, "S. Spo" stamp (title page); Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), armorial bookplate with shelfmark: VI.V.a.10 (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), Bibliotheca Sussexiana sale: Evans, part 4, 30 Jan. 1845, lot 1443; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1909.
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