Accession number:
PML 50667
Published:
[Toscolano] : P. Alex. Pag. Benacenses F. Bena. V. V., [1527-1533]
Description:
[172] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes:
On the publication date, see A. Nuovo, Alessandro Paganino (1509-1538), p. 189.
Binding:
16th-century Italian (Rome) brown morocco gold tooled with foliate ornaments and horizontal medallion at center with Apollo & Pegasus, attributed by Anthony Hobson to Maestro Luigi, a binder who worked for the Vatican Library; Nixon attributed to the Arabesque Binder for a member of the Farnese family.
Provenance:
The Apollo & Pegasus bindings were previously thought to belong to Demetrio Carnevari or Per Luigi Farnese. Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (b. about 1524), binding (see Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, pp. 49ff); Librairie Morgand Bulletin (1895-98), no. 28297; Francois Gustave Adolphe Guyot de Villeneuve, his sale, Paris, part II, 25 March 1901, lot 1146; Charles Templeton Crocker, booklabel; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Fellows, 1960.
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