La uita di Catherina uergine composta per M. Pietro Aretino.
Pietro Aretino (1492 – 1556)
Category
Books
Date
1540
Materials
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031739
Summary
Bibliographic description
[116] leaves : ill., port. ; 8vo. Running number: 7380. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription (price?) in pencil on front fly-leaf, scribbled over in ink and illegible. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; damaged on front cover and discoloured on rear cover; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine with flower stamps; gilt title on reddish-brown leather label on spine. Red burnished textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Pietro Aretino (1492 – 1556), author Daniel Barbaro (1514-1570) Patriarch of Aquileia, author Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568), author Francesco Marcolini (c.1500-c.1559), printer