Alcionio, Medices legatus de exsilio, Venice, Aldus, 1522, Venetian red morocco, De Marinis copy

Alcionio, Pietro. Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus, de exsilio. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, November 1522)

A second copy, very large. The De Marinis copy. The same binding tools are found on Davis Gift 262, a 1523 Aldine Cicero.

4to (217 x 136 mm). Italic type, 36 lines plus headline. collation: a-h⁸ i⁶: 70 leaves (e7-8 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Occasional light soiling, closed repair to margin of i3.)

binding: Contemporary Venetian red morocco (226 x 144 mm) by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?), two concentric frames of blind fillets with gilt fleuron at inner corners and central knotwork tool, spine with blind hatching, gilt edges, stubs of four pairs of green silk ties, early paper label on spine with manuscript title; in pink cloth folding case. (Lightly stained, ends of spine slightly chipped, label chipped, front hinge a little weak.)

provenance: Tammaro De Marinis (1878-1969). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1976. references: UCLA 215; Cataldi Palau 83; Edit16 859; Renouard 95/6. For the binding, see Tammaro De Marinis,