Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus de exsilio.
Pietro Alcionio (1487 - 1527)
Category
Books
Date
1522
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3228889
Summary
Bibliographic description
[70] leaves ; 4to. Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6902. Provenance: manuscript book number or inventory code in red crayon or pencil on rear free endpaper: "A1314". Manuscript manicule, marginalia, underscoring of text and other marginal markings in a sixteenth-century hand on leaves [2] and [3]. Binding: eighteenth-century full red morocco; sewn on five supports; five raised bands on spine; single and double gilt fillet border with small cornerpiece stamps; single gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; rebacked and repaired (nineteenth-century?) in red morocco, with original spine overlaid on new spine; gilt spine, title label missing; all edges gilt; wide comb marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Pietro Alcionio (1487 - 1527), author Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer