Bod-Inc: C-459
Cornazzano, Antonio
Dell'arte militare.
Analysis of Content
a1v [Benalius, Petrus: Letter to] ‘signor F. Mantuano' [Johannes Franciscus II Gonzaga]. Incipit: ‘L'arte militare, illustrissimo & excellentissimo signor . . .’
a1v [Privilege granted to Petrus Benalius.] Dated 3 Jan. 1493/4.
a2r Cornazzano, Antonio: Dell'arte militare. Incipit: ‘[F]ra l'arte che si fan digne d'honore'. See LMA III 241-2; Roberto L. Bruni and Diego Zancani, ‘Antonio Cornazzano: le opere a stampa', Bibliofilia, 86 (1984), 1-61, at 27 ‘A'.
k4v [Colophon.]
A1v ‘Tauola'.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, for Petrus Benalius, ‘8 Nov. 1493' = [1494]. Folio.
Remarks: As Benalius's privilege is dated 3 Jan. 1493/4, this edition should be dated 1494 (BMC).
Collation
Collation: a8 b–i6 k A4.
Illustrations: On a1r a woodcut depicting a tent with two soldiers.
References
ISTC: ic00911000
GW: GW 7548;
Hain: HR 5730;
Goff: Goff C‑911;
BMC: BMC V 468;
Proctor: Pr 5229;
Others: Sander 2172; Sheppard 4309-10.
LCN: 14421401
Copies
Copy number: C-459(1)
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century calf; the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 305 × 210 × 14 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 198 mm.
Provenance: Purchased for £2. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1843), 14.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.43.
Copy number: C-459(2)
Bound with:
2. Federigo Frezzi, Quatriregio . . . che tracta di quatro reami. Venice, 1511.
Wanting gathering A, containing the table.
Binding: Eighteenth-century(?) mottled calf.
Size: 306 × 215 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 298 × 202 mm.
A few marginal notes in a humanist hand.
Woodcut on a1r surrounded by an architectural frame drawn in gold ink.
Provenance: On a1r a sixteenth-century(?) inscription in gold ink: ‘P. Constantini de' Egregiis'. Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Earls of Leicester. Purchased in 1953.
SHELFMARK: Holk. c.3(1).
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