a1v Politianus, Angelus: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Antoniottus Pallavicinus. Dated Florence, 27 May 1491. Maïer I 530 and Angelo Poliziano, Silvae, ed. F. Bausi, Istituto nazionale di studi sul rinascimento, Studi e Testi, 39 (Florence, 1996), 163-4.
a2r Politianus, Angelus: Silva cui titulus Nutricia. Maïer I 531-47 and Bausi 165-254.
Imprint:
Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo di Miscomini, 26 May 1491. 4°.
P-426(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf b10.
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled azure paper boards, with the title gilt on the upper cover.
Size: 205 × 138 × 7 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 134 mm.
On a1r ‘Cosmog. No.' in a humanist hand. A few interlinear notes providing corrections to the text, in the same hand.
Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); book-plate with handwritten shelfmark ‘VII.C.d.58': see Lee, Royal Bookplates, 40-1 no. 23; not identified in sale catalogues.
Purchased for £0. 5. 6; see Books Purchased (1848), 34.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 6.7.
