Sannazaro, Jacopo: L’Arcadia.
Edited by Pietro Summonte.
[Naples: Sigismund Mayr(?) ca. 1507]
4to. A-N8. [104] leaves.
ISTC is00160700; GW M40204; R (IV) 1372 (+ VI, p. 80).
Note: For the printer and date, see Carlo Vecce, ‘Arcadia at the Newberry’, in I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 17, no. 2 (Sept. 2014), pp. 283-302.
| GIP number: | S12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-e.6 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | A2v, line 5: “... uolentieri ...” not as Reichling “... volontieri ...”. |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; purchased 25 Apr. 1839 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code “WE/9 25/4/39 i/” on verso of front free endpaper, together with an early Euing inventory number “36”. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 18th-century brown calf; covers undecorated; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves; portion of an armorial watermark with crown visible on front flyleaf. Size: 211 x 153 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 207 x 148 mm. |
| Annotations: | 19th-century note in ink on verso of front free endpaper “collat. & integr.”; partially erased numbering on recto of front flyleaf “[...] 636 [...]”; 19th-century annotations on verso of front flyleaf “Ristampato in Napoli circa l’anno 1475” and “Collatum & integrum”; 19th-century number in ink “V. 3660” on rear free endpaper. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
