Epistolarum Leonis Decimi libri XVI.
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547)
Category
Books
Date
1539
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 3007349
Summary
Bibliographic description
711,[17]p. 8vo. Old shelfmarks: I.4 (NT?); L.1.5 (NT); L.1.13 (NT). No additional decoration to initial letters has been added to this copy. Annotations on pp. 316, 463, 480 ; underlining or lines against the text on pp. 405, 417-18, 423, 432-33, 442, 447, 453-56., 465, 467, 486, 488, 531, 609, 612, 684, 689-90. Final gathering (Zz) has had repairs to the paper, possibly from old water damage as a small portion of the printer's device remains stuck to the back pastedown. Provenance: No marks of provenance. Binding: Sixteenth-century tanned calf over boards on four raised alum-tawed thongs. Triple blind fillet and roll-tooled rectangular compartment design on covers, triple blind fillet above and below spine bands.
Makers and roles
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547)