Eleganze insieme con la copia della lingua toscana, e latina / scielte da Aldo Mannuccio ; utilissime al comporre nell'una, e l'altra lingua ; con l'aggiunta di CCCCLXXXVIII. nuoui capi necessarijssimi ; et con tre nuoue tauole .

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1547-1597.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574.

Meronus, Cuyenius., Former owner.

King, Lydia W., Former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Eleganze della lingua toscana e latina

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian language--Style.

Italian language.

Latin language--Style.

Latin language.

Genre:

Vellum bindings (Binding) -- 16th century.

Autographs (Provenance)

Annotations (Provenance)

Physical Description:

[104], 414 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : [s.n.], 1594.

Notes:

First published in 1556. According to Renouard and others, compiled by Paolo Manuzio, perhaps for the instruction of and with the assistance of his son, Aldo, then nine years old.

Signatures: [dagger]⁸ *-5*⁸ A-2C⁸. [dagger]8 and 2C8 blank.

Not in Adams.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Lydia W. King; with signature of Cuyenius Meronus; and with inscription (on p. [103]) beginning "Di Gregorio Pucci ..."; and with ms. annotations.

Athenaeum copy: Bound in contemporary limp vellum with hand-lettered label on spine; in later case.