Pontani Opera. ...
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503)
Category
Books
Date
1513
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3032912
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1], 2-255, [1] leaf ; 8vo. Nineteenth-century[?] manuscript note on front endpaper relating to Padeloup binding. Pencil number on final endpaper: 8176. Provenance: not indigenous. Bequeathed by Miss Beverley Battersby, Blackheath, London, in 2007 Owner's circular blind stamp on titlepage: GDV[?]. Binding: eighteenth-century gilt tooled olive morocco, with red morocco centrepiece inlay and square cornerpieces; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered on red spine label: Pontani opera'. Binder's printed ticket on titlepage: "Relié par Padeloup le jeune place Sorbonne a Paris".
Makers and roles
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515) Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529)