Orlando innamorato / del S. Matteo Maria Boiardo, Conte di Scandiano. ; Insieme coi tre libri di M. Nicolo de gli Agostini, già riformati per M. Ludouico Domenchi.
Matteo Maria Boiardo, conte di Scandiano (1440-1494)
Category
Books
Date
1602
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029635
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 78, 90-91, 91-129, [1], 121-073 [i.e. 450] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 4to. Pencil “25” on front pastedown. Seventeenth-century manuscript “F.10 // 635” at foot of titlepage. Provenance: 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 sprinkled, panelled calf over boards on five raised cords, gilt double fillet and lozenge-shaped tool on spine, double blind fillet with inner rectangular and cornerpiece design on covers, gilt roll on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Matteo Maria Boiardo, conte di Scandiano (1440-1494), author Niccolò degli Agostini, author Lodovico Domenichi (1515-1564) , editor