Accession number
PML 1488
Creator
Livy, author.
Published
Venetijs : Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f., MDLXVI [1566]
Credit line
Toovey collection,
Description
[52], 399, [1], 107, [1] leaves ; 33 cm
Notes
Contains scholia and index.
First ed. published in 1555. This edition is a reprint.
Printer's device and colophon on leaf after main text and before scholia.
Sigonio's scholia have special t.p., separate paging and signatures.
First ed. published in 1555. This edition is a reprint.
Printer's device and colophon on leaf after main text and before scholia.
Sigonio's scholia have special t.p., separate paging and signatures.
Binding
16th-century French brown morocco with gold tooled and interlace design, painted strapwork (maybe later?), over paper boards (33 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by the Mahieu Aesop Binder; heavily restored, new endpapers.
Variant title
T. Livij Patavini Historiarum ab vrbe condita libri qvi extant XXXV
Provenance
Binding probably commissioned by Claude de Laubespine III, with his characteristic spine title (this edition is listed among the books in the Laubespine-Villeroy family library at Conflans, see Isabelle de Conihout, Poetry and patronage (2021), p. 26); Ar
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