Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum libri vndeuiginti. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, September 1515 Another copy, also the “correct” issue according to UCLA, with “duernionem” in the register and S correctly imposed. 8vo (165 x 93 mm). Greek and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: AA-DD8 a-z8 A-T8 V4 (DD8 a blank): 372 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, early marginalia. (Worming affecting AA1-BB5, hole to margin of V4, remnants of paper that had been laid down on title, paper laid down to margins of i7 and I1 obscuring marginalia.) binding: Contemporary English dark calf (168 x 97 mm) by John Reynes (d. 1545) of London, upper cover stamped in blind with Baptism of Christ, lower with St. George slaying dragon, both surrounded by a roll of hounds running in foliage, traces of four pairs of ties. (Recased, worn with loss at head and tail of spine, hinges weak, later endpapers.)
provenance: Unidentified owner(s), inscriptions on title-page (obliterated) — unidentified owner, inscription, “Fabij Santacii (?) urbinatis,” on title-page — Carl Roos (1884-1962), librarian in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, from 1909, booklabel to pastedown — Andr. Fred. Høst & Søn, International Antikvariat, Catalogue 226, Copenhagen 1963, item 3650. acquisition: Purchased from Laurence Witten, Southport, 1979. references: UCLA 138; Renouard 73/9; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 133.8
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii Noctium Atticarum libri vndeuiginti. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, September 1515 Another copy, also the “correct” issue according to UCLA, with “duernionem” in the register and S correctly imposed. 8vo (165 x 93 mm). Greek and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: AA-DD8 a-z8 A-T8 V4 (DD8 a blank): 372 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, early marginalia. (Worming affecting AA1-BB5, hole to margin of V4, remnants of paper that had been laid down on title, paper laid down to margins of i7 and I1 obscuring marginalia.) binding: Contemporary English dark calf (168 x 97 mm) by John Reynes (d. 1545) of London, upper cover stamped in blind with Baptism of Christ, lower with St. George slaying dragon, both surrounded by a roll of hounds running in foliage, traces of four pairs of ties. (Recased, worn with loss at head and tail of spine, hinges weak, later endpapers.)
provenance: Unidentified owner(s), inscriptions on title-page (obliterated) — unidentified owner, inscription, “Fabij Santacii (?) urbinatis,” on title-page — Carl Roos (1884-1962), librarian in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, from 1909, booklabel to pastedown — Andr. Fred. Høst & Søn, International Antikvariat, Catalogue 226, Copenhagen 1963, item 3650. acquisition: Purchased from Laurence Witten, Southport, 1979. references: UCLA 138; Renouard 73/9; Aldo Manuzio tipografo 133.8
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