Live veiling - Lot 705
“Diverse oracione de Tito Livio Paduano”.
[Italy, c. 1500]
€ 2.000 / 3.000
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Beschrijving lot
Italian manuscript on ruled agenda-sized paper (c. 19,5 x 10 cm), 165 ff. (mod. pencil foliation), written in brown ink, in a humanistic hand; rubricated throughout (margins stained, some fore-edge margins strengthened).
19th-c. blind-tooled calf, covers with blind and gilt border, gilt spine on 4 raised bands with morocco label, sp. edges, marbl. endpapers, blue silk marker (rubbed, front joint splitting at tail, head and tail def.).
Anonymous Renaissance Italian trsl. of the famous speeches in Livy’s monumental history of Early Rome. On ff. 164v-165r a family diary recording births of 6 children 1534-1537. Prov. [Georges Petit].