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In somnium Scipiones Libri ii. Saturnalium libri vii
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Macrobius
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In somnium Scipiones Libri ii. Saturnalium libri vii
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Style: Armorial|Mottoes; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Stained
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis814
Place of creation Binding: Italy
Object history Text: 1556; Lyon; Franzone, Tommaso
Notes Scilicet is superis labor est tooled in gold on upper cover. Macchi states;Genoa, 1545-1550. A dozen known examples : 10 through A. Hobson, French and Italian collectors, Appendix D; 1 through the catalogue G. Bortolani, Mostra del libro antico, p. 42, n. 54, Platina, Opvs de vitis ac gestis svmmorum pontificivm, Coliniae, apud Matrernum Colinum, 1562; 1 through the catalogue Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Milan, Arte della legatura a Brera, n. 29, p. 119 on Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis libri octo, Lugduni, apud Hugonem a Porta, excudebat Gaspar Trechsel Viennae, 1541, pressmark LP 1.
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M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010.

A R A Hobson 'A Genoese Book Collector' in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 2012 pp208-212.
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