Musaeus, Poiemation, Florence, 1519, contemporary blind-tooled Venetian morocco

Musaeus Grammaticus. Mousaiou Poiemation ta kath'Hero kai Leandron. Orpheos argonautika. Tou autou hymnoi. Orpheus peri lithon. Gnomai ek diaphoron poieton. Homerou Batrachomyomachia. Musaei opusculum de Herone & Leandro. Orphei Argonautica. Eiusdem hymni … [Greek and Latin]. Florence: Heirs of Filippo Giunta, 1519

8vo (163 x 95 mm). Italic and Greek type, 28 lines. collation: a-l⁸ m-n⁸: 104 leaves, foliated. Woodcut illustrations, early marginal annotations, woodcut device on verso of final leaf. (Scattered foxing.)

binding: Contemporary blind tooled Venetian morocco (168 x 105 mm), frame with repeated filigree motif flanking a fountain, four large knotwork tools vertically running down central panel, traces of four pairs of fabric ties, spine with raised bands in four compartments, floral device tooled in blind in each, edges stained blue. (Rubbed, with some loss to spine and corners.)

acquisition: Purchased from Libraio Antiquario Meda Riquier, Pavia, 2010. references: Renouard XLIII/10; Edit16 55270; USTC 843821; Decia & Delfiol p. 107 no. 122