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Descriptio Graeciae : ex recensione M. Musuri graecae.

Accession number
PML 16168
Creator
Pausanias.
Published
Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Iulio M.D.XVI [July 1516].
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan in
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 pasted
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. Duc
Classification
Century
Department