Accession number
PML 18888
Creator
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.
Published
Lugd. [i.e. Lugduni] : Apud Guliel. Rovilium, 1550.
Description
226, [6] p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Notes
Several of the woodcuts are signed with the initials of Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzet(?).
The vignettes and the borders enclosing them (in part signed P.V.) are most probably by Pierre Vase, or Du Vase, son Jakob Eskrich, and known also as Petrus Escrichiu
The vignettes and the borders enclosing them (in part signed P.V.) are most probably by Pierre Vase, or Du Vase, son Jakob Eskrich, and known also as Petrus Escrichiu
Binding
16th-century French calf, gold tooled with portrait medallions of Henri II (inscribed ".HEN.II.R."). Nixon identifies this as a "trade binding" and not related to the royal library.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1909.
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