Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

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Justinus, Epitome in Trogi Pompeii historias, Venice, 1507, modern tooled calf

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December 3, 04:27 PM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS

Ex Trogo Pompeio historiae cum multis memorabilibus in margine. (Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 17 May 1507)


folio (300 x 195mm.), woodcut initials, with final blank, modern roll-tooled calf, slipcase, some early annotations, some paper repairs (especially to lower corner), a few small wormholes


This copy contains a manuscript library list on the final blank leaf. The list is headed "Los libros ystoriales de Latin que tengo son estos" followed by a list of 21 titles of works by classical, patristic and more recent authors, and below a list of six works by "Los poetas", Vergil, Ovid, Boethius, Homer, Seneca and Terence.


LITERATURE:

Edit16 52915


PROVENANCE:

Colección Alfageme-Fontanals, name on spine