Accession number
PML 199042
Creator
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano, 1429-1503.
Published
Impressum Neapoli : Per Sigismundum Mayr Alemanum, mense Septembri MCCCCCV [Sept. 1505]
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
[148] leaves ; 31 cm (folio chiefly in eights)
Notes
A collection of love lyrics that Pontano (1426-1503) wrote before his marriage in 1461, edited by Pietro Summonte (1463-1526) from a manuscript incorporating the poet's last revisions; the first in the series of definitive editions of Pontano's works edit
Binding
Contemporary Neapolitan brown goatskin (310 x 178 mm), attributed to Masone di Maio or Girolamo d'Ambrosio, covers with gilt palmette border and goatskin inlay, raised cameo portrait of Pontano (from a medallion by Adriano Fiorentino) between tabulae ansa
Variant title
Hoc in uolumine opera haec continentur
Provenance
Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850-1931); Henri Baudoin, sale: Maurice Ader & Librairie Giraud-Badin, Paris, 13-14 June 1932, lot 129; Lucien Désiré Prosper Graux (1878-1944), inherited by: Madame Lucien Graux [née Léontine de Flavigny], sale: Maurice Rheim
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