La Sophonisba del Trissino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio, 1478-1550.

Contributor:

Janicolo, Tolommeo, active 1524-1548, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sofonisba

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 (autograph)

Bouthillier de Chavigny (coat of arms)

Bouthillier, Léon, comte de Chavigny, 1608-1652 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

104 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Sophonisba

Fingerprint:

insi e,e. ta*. DaAd (C) 1529 (R)

Place of Publication:

Stampata in Vicenza : Per Tolomeo Ianiculo, nel MDXXIX di Maggio [May 1529]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a-n⁴.

The letters "e" and "o" are represented by the Greek letters epsilon and omega throughout.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Printed in Arrighi italic. For description see Birrell & Garnett. Catalogue ... 1928.

Device of Giovanni Trissino on verso of front free endpaper.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in a portion of a leaf (recto visible) from the register of Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum (i.e. Nuremberg Chronicle), printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493 (ISTC is00307000).

Culture Class Collection copy has the arms of Bouthillier de Chavigny (azure, three lozenges conjoined in fess or, beneath the coronet of a marquis, surrounded by the chains of the French royal orders) on verso of front free endpaper. Despite the marquis' coronet, these are probably the arms of Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny, 1608-1652.

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph of Austen Henry Layard on front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph of James Otway [?] on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has first initial hand-colored in black, red and brown.

Cited in:

Adams T958

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 681

EDIT 16 CNCE 25809

Gamba, B. Testi di lingua, 1710

Herrick, M.T. Italian plays, 1500-1700, in the University of Illinois Library, p. 65

OCLC:

213736678