Gli Asolani / di M. Pietro Bembo.
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547)
Category
Books
Date
1553
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029372
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 115, [1] leaves ; 8vo. Underlining and crosses against text on fol. 101v.-111r. Provenance: armorial bookplate (small) on titlepage verso: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century limp vellum on four vellum thongs, brown spine label, single gilt fillet on spine, two pairs of holes for and remains of alum-tawed ties.
Makers and roles
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) , author