"Petrus Crinitus (“Curly”), d. 1507, was the pen name of the Florence humanist Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, disciple of Poliziano. His literary miscellany De honesta disciplina, published by Giunta in 1504, went through many editions. De poetis latinis is generally dated 1505, but Giunta's colophon must be interpreted as 1505/6, for Crinitus's dedication to Cosimo Pazzi, Bishop of Arezzo, is dated 1 November 1505."--Sotheby's. Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library.The Aldine Collection A-C, lot 412.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: 2A⁶ A-G⁶. 2A6 blank.
Includes Crinito's dedicatory epistle to Cosimo Pacci, dated Nov. 1, 1505.
Chancery folio (275 x 190 mm). Roman type, 39 lines plus headline; initial spaces.
Printed in roman type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.
Initials supplied by hand throughout in red and blue.
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Petri Criniti Libri de poetis Latinis.
Accession number:
PML 199052
Published:
Impressum Florentiae : Per Philippum Iuntam, Kalen[dis] Februariis MDV [February 1, 1505 or 1506]
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
96 unnumbered pages ; 28 cm (fol.)
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Binding:
Bound for Jean Grolier by the Cupid's Bow Binder; brown morocco with gilt tooling of open and azured tools (280 x 200 mm), inlaid red morocco roundel on upper cover with gilt title, Grolier's ownership inscription gilt in bottom compartment of upper cover, and motto similarly tooled on lower cover; edges gilt; spine gilt in the seventeenth century with a semé of fleurs-de-lis.
Provenance:
Jean Grolier (died 1565); Claude Gros de Boze (sale Paris, Martin, 1753, lot 2578; Antoine Marie Pâris d'Illins (Bibliotheca Parisiana, London, 28 March 1791, lot 186); Michael Wodhull (“Leigh's sale, Nov. 28th 1801 £1 11s 6d”; Sotheby's, 11 January 1886, lot 845); Paulin Caperon (aka Peter Coutts); Adolphe Bordes; Maurice Loncle; Otto Schäfer (purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1961); T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), purchased from Stéphane Clavreuil, Paris, 2019, sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2023, lot 412.
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