Accession number
PML 172
Creator
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Object title
De legendis antiquorum libris, sive De liberalibus studiis (Tr: Leonardus Brunus Aretinus).
Published
[Nuremberg : Johann Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), about 1474]
Description
(4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Checklist: "JPM 172."
Kloss catalogue claims PML copy belonged to Philipp Melanchthon.
Kloss catalogue claims PML copy belonged to Philipp Melanchthon.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, by Duprez-Lahey.
Variant title
De liberalibus studiis
Provenance
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 589; William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett Collection, 1902.
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