BEIN Zi +5574 Copy 1: Variant: z6r ends "de diasprea". Binder's stamp: Thibaron-Joly., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: 2⁴ a-y⁸ z¹⁰ A-E⁸ F⁴., Sometimes attributed to Leon Battista Alberti., and Woodcuts have been attributed to Giovanni Bellino due to the ones on [10b] and [21a] being signed "b." Others have attributed them to Raffaelle. Alexander Pope thought them by Francia or Andrea de Mantegna. Lake Price attributed them to Carpaccio. Used by others without acknowledgement.
Publisher:
in aedibus Aldi Manutii,
Subject (Name):
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472, Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer, and Thibaron-Joly--Binding
Isocrates Isocrates. To Demonicus Isocrates. To Nicocles
Published / Created:
ca. 1495]
Call Number:
Gfi9 c517
Image Count:
64
Alternative Title:
Orations. Selections
Description:
"No place, printer or date of publication. It was assigned by Legrand to the year 1517 and to the press of the Greek College (Gymnasium) in Rome ... However, this book is actually an incunable. It was printed in Florence by Alopa with the type designed by Ianos Laskaris. This type was later used by the Greek College press in Rome as well, hence the erroneous ascription"-- Layton, E. "Greek bibliography additions and corrections (c. 1471-1829)." Thēsaurismata tou Hellēnikou Institoutou Vyzantinōn kai Metavyzantinōn Spoudōn, t. 16, p. 107, 42., Description based on imperfect Beinecke Library copy wanting the title page. Title supplied from E. Legrand. Bibliographie hellénique, Paris, 1885, vol. 1, p. 162-163, no. 57, where, however, quire [zeta] is described as having 8 leaves, and leaf [epsilon]₄ is described as misprinted [delta]iiii (in the Beinecke Library copy it is signed correctly). Bookplate of Giacomo Manzoni., Imperfect: Title-page wanting. Bookplate of Giacomo Manzoni., Record romanized., Signatures: α-[epsilon]⁸ [zeta]-[eta]⁶., and Some pages misnumbered in ms.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author
Published / Created:
Mcccclxxxxiii die xviii Iulii [18 July 1493]
Call Number:
2017 +316
Image Count:
320
Alternative Title:
Works. 1493 and Tragoediae
Description:
BEIN 2017 +316: Capitals supplied in red or blue. Manuscript note on free back endpaper: Collated complete pp. B. Quaritch Ltd. [undeciphered initials]., BEIN 2017 +316: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 55] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès), 6. Helmut Friedlaender (bookplate "HNF"; sale Christie's NY, 23 April 2001, lot 117). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +316: Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, bound for Antonio Pillone by Hobson's Belluno Binder A. Sides panelled within triple fillets, outer and central compartments adorned with widely spaced small 4- and 5-petalled rosette tools, two inner borders composed respectively of a repeated blossom and leaf tool and leafy tool (see Hobson tools 1, 2, 7 and 11). Spine with two double raised bands tooled with intersecting triple fillets, 4 (of 10) brass bosses, 1 (of 2) clasps and 2 catches. Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Seneca with abbreviated name and title ("SEN T") at bottom., BEIN Zi +4994: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Manuscript marginal notes. Worm-eaten, with some damage to text. Bound in old limp vellum, with flap, oriental style, and leather strap; part of the strap, presumably with buckle, missing. Manuscript notes: fol. 2a: "Es dela Libr1. de S. Miguel de los Reyes."; fol. 1a: "This book was given to me by Dr. Pedro Perez the antiquarian of Valencia May 8th 1844. Q. Ayshford Sanford." Dr. Perez's visiting card pasted on fol. 1a. 31 cm., Title from caption of text on leaf I (a1); imprint from colophon., Commentaries by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta and Daniel Caietanus., Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁴ (A1 blank)., and Woodcut initials, also capital-spaces with guide-letters.
Fol. 310, blank, wanting; several ff. are blank on one side., Manuscript note on fly-leaf: "E. Burne-Jones. MDCCC-LXXXIV. London.", Red straight grain morocco binding, gilt; bound by Bozerian, according to a penciled note on fly-leaf., With Sir Edward Burne-Jones' book-plate, and another book-plate, unidentified (armorial, motto: "Amantibvs ivstitiam pietatem fidem")., and Woodcut illustrations, mostly full-page; printer's device at end; capital spaces with guide-letters; initial on fol. a₂a supplied in ink.
Apparently a proofsheet or prospectus of an edition that was never published., BEIN ZZi 07: Imperfect: torn in two halves, with slight damage to text; apparently removed from a binding., and Kollicker's type 282.
