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Gliasolani di messer Pietro Bembo.: PB 8-2022

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Gliasolani di messer Pietro Bembo.
Gli asolani

Maker(s)

Author: Bembo, Pietro
Dedicatee: Borgia, Lucrezia
Printer: Manuzio, Aldo
Printer: Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula

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Description

129,[1] leaves ; 17cm (8vo).

Imprint from colophon.
Aldine Press dolphin and anchor printer's device on t.p. and verso of last leaf.
Reprint of the 1505 Aldine edition with the preface of P. Bembo to Lucretia Borgia, suppressed in most of the copies of the earlier edition due to a rift between Julius II and Lucretia's husband Alfonso d'Este.
With dedication: A madonna Lucretia Estense Borgia duchessa illustrissima de Ferrara ... In Venetia il di primo d'Agosto MDIIII [1504].
Old classmark: 740.
Binding: Milanese, citron morocco (16th century), with g.t. stamp of boy holding cornucopia in centre of boards, g.t. & blind stamped; spine blind stamped, raised bands; a.e.g., gauffered.

Notes

History note: Marlay, 1912. With cutting from bookseller's cat. Booksellers' codes on front free e.p. & back paste-down e.p.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Production date: AD 1515 : Impressi in Vinegia : Nelle case d'Aldo Romano & d'Andrea Asolano, suo suocero, nel anno MDXV del mese di maggio [1515]

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 8-2022
Primary reference Number: 308086
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 31 March 2022 Updated: Friday 10 March 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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