Vincentii Madii Brixiani et Bartholomaei Lombardi Veronensis In Aristotelis librum De poetica communes explanationes: Madii vero in eundem librum propriae annotationes. : Eiusdem De ridiculis: et in Horatii librum De arte poetica interpretatio. In fronte praeterea operis apposita est Lombardi in Aristotelis Poeticam praefatio.
Vincenzo Maggi (d.1564)
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3189006
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 369, [3] p ; fol. Running number: 4734. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Tract. de Poet. 747". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "θ½" [i.e. theta½ = Greek number 9½]. Manuscript autograph inscriptions on title page: "Jani Gruteri" [possibly Janus Gruterus (1560-1627)] and "Pauli Terhaarij, Amstelodamaei" [i.e. Paul Terhaar, of Amsterdam], with another inscription half cropped off at head of title page. With manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring of text on p. 1-13. Binding: seventeenth-century[?] Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf (upper board detached, lower board loose); gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Vincenzo Maggi (d.1564), author Aristotle (384-322 BC) Horace (65 - 8 BC) Alessandro Pazzi de' Medici (1483-1530) Bartolomeo Lombardi (1505-1542) Vincenzo Valgrisi (fl. 1540-1572)