Accession number
PML 15431
Creator
Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
Published
Venetiis, In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Martio M.D.XV [March 1515]
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
148, [2] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes
Leaves are printed on both sides.
Edited by Girolamo Avanzi and Aldo Pio Manuzio.
With dolphin and anchor device on title page.
Edited by Girolamo Avanzi and Aldo Pio Manuzio.
With dolphin and anchor device on title page.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Bologna) brown morocco, gold tooled, with title "CATVL TIBVLLVS PROPE" in central cartouche, by the Ebeleben Bindery (see Nixon, Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, 1971), p. 52).
Variant title
Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Edouard Rahir with the "Rahir Fifty," 1907.
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