Cosmo Medici Duci Florentinor. et Senens. Vrbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae [sic] supersunt reliquiae summa cum diligentia a Ioanne Antonio Dosio stilo ferreo vt hodie cernuntur descriptae et a Io. Baptista de Caualeriis aeneis tabulis incisis repraesentatae.
Giovanni Antonio Dosio
Category
Books
Date
1569
Materials
Place of origin
Florence
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032405
Summary
Bibliographic description
50 leaves of plates : all ill. (metal cuts) ; obl. 4to. Running number: 7269. Front cover and some interior leaves have minor insect (silverfish?) damage along the foot. Water damage on some plates, especially 37-50. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 50. Plates" [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscriptions (all in same hand) on front pastedown: "Emptus Rome 1575", "Loìré" and (in Greek) "νηφε και μέμνασν αωισειν" or "νάφε και μέμνασο απιστείν" [= nēphe k[ai] memnasn/memnaso aōisein/apistein]. Binding: sixteenth- or seventeenth-century limp vellum; sewn onto three leather cords; remnants of two pairs of leather ties on fore-edge of covers.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Antonio Dosio, author Giovanni Battista de Cavalieri (Trento c. 1525 - 1601) , engraver (printmaker)