File:Latina monimenta - De laudibus philosophiae - Aurelii carminum libri - Upper cover (Davis840).jpg

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Latina monimenta / De laudibus philosophiae / Aurelii carminum libri
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Casa / J Sadoletus / S Doletus
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Latina monimenta / De laudibus philosophiae / Aurelii carminum libri
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Style: Armorial; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Red|Stained
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis840
Place of creation Binding: Italy
Object history Text: 1564/ 1538/ 1538; Florence / Lyon / Lyon; Unspecified
Notes Scilicet is superis labor est tooled in gold on cover. (Rome or possibly in Genoa, c.1564-5).
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M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010. pp. 399-400, no. [335].

Macchi states; A dozen known examples : 10 from 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 from 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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