L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, sive, Lusus asini libri XI ; Floridoru[m] IIII ; De deo Socratis I ; De philosophia I. Asclepius Trismegisti Dialogus / eode[m] Apuleio i[n]terprete ; eiusdem Apuleii Liber de dogmatis Platonicis ; eiusde[m] Liber de mundo, que[m] magna ex parte ex lib. Aristotelis eiusde[m] argumenti in Latinum traduxit ... ; Apologiae II. Isagogicus liber Platonicae philosophiae / per Alcinou[m] philosophum, Graece impressus, nam maluimus hunc Graecum imprimere, quàm Latinum, cum inepta tra[ns]latione cuiusdam Episcopi Tropiensis barbarus esset.
Accession number:
PML 15427
Published:
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Maio 1521.
Description:
266 [i.e. 264], [28] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Edited by Franciscus Asulanus.
Imprint from colophon.
Italic type.
Printer's device on the title page; verso of the final leaf.
Binding:
16th-century French black morocco, gold-tooled by the bindery of either Hugues Salel (about 1504-1553) or Jean Picard (active 1540-47); hinges repaired. Gilt edges. Later the ciffre of the Marquis de Ménars was added to the spine compartments.
Variant Title:
Lusus asini libri XI
Provenance:
Jean Grolier (1479-1565), "et amicorum" inscription at bottom of front cover, motto in center of back cover; Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), signatures (front endleaf 5r and at colophon) and shelfmark (front pastedown), de Thou's library purchased in 1680 by: Jean Jacques Charron, marquis de Menars (1644-1718), monogram chiffre added to spine panels, at Charron's death, his library passed to: Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan, Bishop of Strasbourg (1674-1749), his library was then inherited by his nephew: Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1715-1787), Soubise sale: Paris, Jan. 1789, lot 5332, to Chardin for 104 fr.; William Beckford (1760-1844), inherited by his daughter: Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale: Sotheby's, part 1, 30 June 882, lot 322 for £158.0.0 to: J. Pearson & Co.; P(aulin?). Caperon (aka Peter Coutts, d. Sept. 1889), sold (probably by Coutts' heirs) Grolier bindings in 1890-93 to: Librairie Damascène Morgand, inv. no. 24293 (front pastedown), Répertoire méthodique (1893), no. 4859 for 5000 fr.; Paul Brenot, monogram book label, no. 3208 (rear pastedown); Edouard Rahir, Livres aux armes, no. 540 for 10,000 fr.; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Rahir (with the "Rahir Fifty"), May 1907.
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