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Milan, Italy
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Latin
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Reference IDs
Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.: 137
Folger bibliographic ID: 265779
Index Aureliensis: 10:51, no. 144.830
Grässe: v. 1-2, p. 264
EDIT 16 (2. ed.): 4:190, no. 6474
Brunet: 2:273
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries: C-2632
Folger call number: DG657 .C6 1503 Cage
Folger holdings ID: 351560
Accession Number: 172508
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Bibliographic format
folio
General notes
In Italian, with Latin titles Reissued some years later with six additional leaves preceding original title page, consisting of a newly-designed t.p. by Legnano, with title "Historia di Milano continente da lorigine di Milano tutti li gesti, fatti e detti preclari e le cose memorande milanesi infino al tempo di esso autore"; note to the reader; and five index leaves. Cf. Mortimer. The new title page called for in the reissue is here lacking; the note to the reader and "Repertorio" comprise 8 leaves Imprint from colophon Roman type; spaces for initials, some with guide letters Preliminary leaves include unadorned title page; a woodcut of "Virtue" in an architectural setting, holding heraldic arms of Corio and Sforza; prefaces addressed to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza; a woodcut of the author writing at his desk, above a Latin inscription by Stefano Dolcini; and dedicatory epistle to Cardinal Sforza Woodcut of author, attributed to the Melchiorre master, and influenced perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci, is repeated on leaf 2a₁ of Part II; cf. Mortimer; and S. Samek Ludovici, Illustrazione del libro e incisione in Lombardia nel '400 e '500 Errata: leaves 2f5-2f8 Important history of Milan, recording events from the earliest times to the end of the 15th century, including a long description of the magnificent banquet given at the wedding of Bianca Maria Sforza to Emperor Maximilian. Part II contains the lives of the Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Federico Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Signatures: pi² A⁸ 2pi⁴ a¹⁰ b¹² c-d⁶ e-m⁸ n⁶ o-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-X⁸ 2a-2d⁸ 2e⁶ 2f⁸
Item information about Folger DG657 .C6 1503 Cage
In early calf; triple blind fillets and angled corner tools; gilt spine title; gilt edges; manuscript title on fore-edge; manuscript notes
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depiction: Corio, Bernardino, 1459-1519?
associated with: Sforza, Ascanio Maria, 1455-1505
printer: Minuziano, Alessandro, 1450-1522