Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

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Alunno, Le ricchezze della lingua volgare, Venice, Aldus, 1551, limp vellum

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Alunno, Francesco. Le ricchezze della lingua volgare di m. Francesco Alunno da Ferrara sopra il Boccaccio nuovamente ristampate, et con somma diligenza ricorrette, et molto ampliate dallo istesso autore. Con le dechiarationi, regole, & osservationi delle voci, & dell'altre particelle; & con le annotationi della varietà de testi antichi, & moderni; & il tutto collocato a i luoghi loro secondo l'ordine dell'alphabeto: insieme col Boccaccio, nel quale sono segnale le carte co i numeri corrispondenti all'Opera per piu comodità de studiosi. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1551


Second Aldine edition. This copy has been connected with the library of Marcus Fugger; while the writing on the cover is not in his hand, this book was at one time in the ownership of a branch of the Fugger family.


Folio (303 x 208 mm). Roman and italic type, 61 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-CC8 DD-EE6: 220 leaves. Woodcut portrait of the author on title-page, woodcut Aldine device on final verso.


binding: Contemporary limp vellum (305 x 215 mm), early manuscript title lettering on upper cover, fragment from a Hebrew manuscript used as spine liner. (Small hole in upper cover, upper pastedown torn.)


provenance: Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 35, £1,100, to Bernard Quaritch. acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2013. references: UCLA 404; Edit16 1310; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 18; Renouard 151/7

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