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Pauli Iovii Novocomensis episcopi Nucerini, de Vita Leonis Decimi Pont. Max. libri quatuor : His ordine temporum accesserunt Hadriani Sexti Pont. Max. et Pompeii Columnae Cardinalis vitae / ab eodem Paulo Iovio conscriptae.

Accession number
PML 4075
Creator
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Published
Florentiae : Officina Laurentii Torrentini, 1549.
Description
[8], 205 p. ; 33 cm.
Notes
Exhibited in Burlington Fine Arts Exh. 1891.
Cf. H. M. Adams, Cat. Cambr. libr., G689.
Binding
Brown calf over pasteboard, gold-tooled; strapwork enamelled in black and gray, edges gilt. A Grolier binding, ca. 1549-1556, once attributed to Claude de Piques, now attributed to Gommar Estienne.
Provenance
From the libraries of Jean Grolier (with his name and motto on the binding ), S. W. Singer, Joseph Techener, A. Firmin Didot, Lé́on Techener, and George B. De Forest.
Classification
Department