Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
1 August 1859
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/7
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (QBo 798 799 800 THE LIBRI LIBRARY. 108 how the Poet came to make the Credo. This Introduction commences— Al tempo che Dante suo libro deciso and ends with— faccendo questi uersi molti presti. After this, another intitulation, “Qui commincia ilcredo di Dante alding- hieri poeta fiorentino,” which with the first terzina completes the first page marked a. Each of the other pages contain twelve Terzine or 36 lines, except the last which has only ten. The work concludes on the reverse of the fourth leaf, with “ Finito a1 Credo di Dante.” Danre Alighieri, La Monarchia tradotta di M. Marsilio Ficino Manuscript, written in a beautiful cursive hand. Ato. So. xvi Bound in old Venetian red morocco, richly tooled sides, gilt edges, by an Italian binder at the beginning of the X VIth Century. Dante. Vita nuova di Dante Alighieri con XV Canzoni del medesimo. E la Vita di esso Dante scritta da Giovanni Boccaccio SCARCE, fine copy 8vo. Firenze, B. Sermatelli, 1576 This Work, besides several Sonnets by Dante, contains some addressed to the great Italian Bard by other Poets. Dants. TLettioni d’Academici Fiorentini sopra Dante. Libro primo (raccolti dal A. F. Doni) scarce, Venetian morocco, super extra, gilt edges, by #. Bedford small 4to. Fiorenza appresso il Dont, 1547 No more was ever published of this Collection, which contains ten Lezioni. The first three are by F. Vieri detto il Verino, and the others by G. B. Gelli, G. Strozzi, P. F. Giambullari (2), C. Bartoli, G. B. da Ceretto, and M. Tanci. Darinet, Pasteur des Amadis, La Sphere des deux Mondes composée en Francois avec un Epithalame sur les Nopees & Mariage de Don Puitrere Roy p’ANGLETERRE, &c. et vAvTRE Monpe (en Vers) commenté, glosé & enrichy de plusieurs Fables Poetiques par G. B.D. B. (Gilles Boilleau de Buillon), woodcut diagrams and maps (including one of Purw and other parts of AMERICA) Ato. Anvers, chez Je. Richart, 1555 A poetical volume of considerable rarity, which must always prove equally and extremely attractive to the English or American Collector. The “ Epithalame” or the Canto Nupcial y otro Matrimonial” on the Marriage of Philip II of Spain with Mary, QuEEN oF ENGLAND, is in Spanish, a fact N
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