Accession number
PML 199039
Creator
Nanni, Giovanni, 1432?-1502, author.
Published
Lugduni : Apud Ioannem Temporalem, 1555
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
[72], 199 [i.e. 599], [36] pages, 13 cm (16°)
Notes
A set of forged texts attributed to the priests Berosus the Chaldean, Manetho the Egyptian, Metasthenes the Persian, and others, the first volume (tomas prior) of a two-volume, small-format reprint of the collection of spurious chronicles written by the D
Binding
Contemporary Parisian russet morocco (126 x 84 mm), by the Mansfeld Binder for Gian Federico Madruzzo, central painted arms on covers, enclosed by strapwork on a semé of pointillé tools, the strapwork with black-painted foliate ornaments, triple gilt fi
Inscriptions/Markings
With inscriptions "15y64-4 Augusti | non hic [symbol of the Sacred Heart] | satiabor | HF. F.Z. Madruts" and "15y65 / 23 junij / Benedictus d[omi]n[u]s deus mé / H.F. F.Z Madru ..." on pastedown and front end-leaf.
Provenance
Gian Federico Madruzzo; possibly Cardinal Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo (1562-1629), postmortem inventory listing 1435 books in his library in Borgo S. Pietro in Rome, f. 241 recto, line 17: "Berosius, de antiquitate Italiae" [Archivio di Stato di Roma, Notai
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