Accession number
PML 195712
Creator
Patrizi, Francesco, 1413-1494.
Published
Parrhisiis impressorum : opera honesti viri magistri Petri Vidoue ... impensis vero Galioti a Prato, sextodecimo calendas Maias anni Domini milesimi quingentesimi vndeuicesimi ad Romanum calculum [16 April 1519]
Credit line
Mrs. Livio Borghese and on the E. Clark Stillman Fund and the Henry S. Morgan Fund,
Description
[52], CCCCLIII [i.e. 455], [1] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Place and date of publication from colophon, which reads: Parrhisiis impressorum opera honesti viri magistri Petri Vidoue ... impensis vero Galioti a Prato ... sextodecimo calendas Maias anni Domini milesimi quingentesimi vndeuicesimi ad Romanum calculum.
Binding
Brown calf tooled in gilt with an arabesque border and a central panel with strapwork and circle motifs, gilt edges, the covers and some spine compartments laid down on a nineteenth-century binding. Attributed to Pierre Roffet by Guigard and Hobson.
Provenance
Jean Grolier, inscriptions (p. 450 and rear pastedown); J. H. Fitzhenry (Christie's sale, 1 Dec. 1913, lot 105 to Tregaskis); P. M. Pittar (Sotheby's sale, 2 Nov. 1918, lot 295 to Moreton); James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell, book label; Norman H. Hansen (sale
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