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Giacomo Tornieri letter to Bernardo Giunta, 1584.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Tornieri, Giacomo.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
- Dodoens, Rembert.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Italy.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Herbals--Europe--History--Sources.
- Herbals.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), 2018
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 17 x 21 cm.
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 24 Folder 22
- Place of Publication:
- 1584.
- Language Note:
- In Italian.
- Biography/History:
- Publisher and bookseller in 16th-century Rome.
- Summary:
- Signed letter to bookseller and printer Bernardo Giunta of Venice, dated 1 January 1584 in Rome, requesting a missing bifolium from Flemish botanist Rembert Dodoens's herbal Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, sive libri XXX (Antwerp, 1583), to allow Tornieri to fulfill an order for the book. Remnants of wax seal on recto, address on verso, folds remain from mailing.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1225613855
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