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Arcadia del Sannazaro.

Accession number
PML 20460.1
Creator
Sannazaro, Jacopo, 1458-1530. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxxdvbtc8XB7Dp3MPvGpP
Published
Impresso in Vinegia : Nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII [1534].
Credit line
J.P. Morgan, Jr.,
Description
91, [1] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes
Title from title page, leaf 1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf 91v: Impresso in Vinegia nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Romano, et Andrea Socero, nel'anno M.D.XXXIIII.
Signatures: A-L⁸, M⁴.
Printer's device on title page (leaf 1r) and final verso (le
Binding
16th-century French gilt-tooled brown morocco, based on Italian models, for Jean Grolier. With gilt-tooled title: "Arcadia del/ Sannazaro / Sonetti e/ Canzoni/ del ditto" and "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" (front board) and Grolier's motto: "Portio mea do/mi
Inscriptions/Markings
Initials and printer's marks colored in gold.
Provenance
Jean Grolier (1479-1565), binding with mottos: "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" and "Portio mea domine sit in terra viventium" stamped on covers, probably from his second library, after 1538; Méry de Vic (d. 1622), one of the inheritors of Grolier's library (
Classification
Century
Department