Accession number:
PML 199342
Published:
Basileae : Ex Officina Hieronymi Curionis, Impensis Henrichi Petri, M.D. LII [1552]
Credit:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description:
534 unnumbered leaves ; 33 cm (fol)
Notes:
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [cross]⁶ a⁶ b-z⁸ aa-zz⁸ Aa-Qq⁸ Rr-Ss⁶ α-γ⁶ δ⁴: 534 leaves.
Binding:
Spanish brown calf over thick wooden boards (332 x 222 mm), second half of sixteenth century, tooled in blind, border composed of a blind roll of leaves and tendrils extending past corners to edges of boards, same roll repeated 3 times vertically in central panel, inner empty frame only with miters, two clasps (straps renewed in twentieth century, plausibly original metalwork), remains of metal shoes, late sixteenth-century fore-edge decoration, title lettered across fore-edge with armorials and leafy decoration.
Provenance:
Sancho Dávila y Toledo (1546-1625), arms on fore-edge; old shelfmark "Est. 13. H" on title-page; [by family descent to] Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso (1744-1816), marqués de Astorga, printed label pasted to foot of [cross]2 "Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga"; Delbergue-Cormont & Antoine Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son excellence de le Marquis d'Astorga, Paris, 31 May-4 June 1870, lot 797; Henry Duhamel (1853-1917), bookplate. acquisition: Purchased in 1994 from H.P. Kraus, New York; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1105.
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