La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso. Con le annotationi di Scipion Gentili, e di Giulio Guastauini, et li argomenti di Oratio Ariosti.
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Category
Books
Date
1617
Materials
Place of origin
Genoa
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005797
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 255, [1], 71, [1], 36, [4] p. : ill. ; fol. Running number: 7463. Wormed from front cover through to leaf I5, with loss of some text. Extensive water and mould-staining at foot of leaves throughout; some leaves stuck together. Provenance: manuscript number and capital letter on front fly-leaf: "369" and "D". Manuscript inscription at foot title page verso: "Maillefer". Pencil markings in the margins of cantos 1-3. Manuscript inscription (price code?) on rear pastedown: "auboujii[?] 412ott". Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf, water-stained at foot of boards; sewn on six raised bands; gold-tooled spine, with 'Tasso' lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), author Orazio Ariosto (1555-1593), author Scipione Gentili (1563-1616), editor Giulio Guastavini (fl. 16th century), editor Bernardo Castello (1557-1629), artist Camillo Cungi (d.c.1649), engraver (printmaker)