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mei/00206696 Inc. b. I1(3).
[00206696]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Inc. b. I1(3).
ISTC No.il00216000
AuthorLignano, Johannes de
TitleDe bello, repraesaliis et duello. With the additions of Paulus de Lignano
ImprintPavia : Christophorus de Canibus, 31 May 1487
Provenance nameGeorge, WilliamWilliam George's Sons Ltd (nineteenth/twentieth century); booksellers, 104 High St., Oxford, and in Bristol; in 1929 George's was taken over by Blackwell's, but still traded under the original name; see A.L.P. Norrington, Blackwell's 1879-1979 (Oxford, 1983), 96 and 132-3.
Provenance namePinelli, Maffeo (1735-1785), 1735 - 1785 (Male) conte, state printer of Venice; see Frati 462-3; Parenti II 85; Clarke, Repertorium, 498-504; the Pinelli books carry no specific marks of ownership (though bound and lettered in a small number of distinctive styles), but, inside the front cover, in the same place in the top inner corner, about an inch from the hinge and half an inch from the top edge, are written in ink in a single hand the sale lot number and a number referring to the catalogue of the Pinelli library compiled by the librarian of the Biblioteca Marciana, Jacopo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno jam studio collecta (Venice, 1787); the whole library was bought by the London bookseller, James Edwards, for £600, and auctioned by him: Bibliotheca Pinelliana. A Catalogue of the Magnificent and Celebrated Library of Maffei Pinelli, Late of Venice (London: James Edwards, 2 Mar. 1789); the Bodleian has two copies, Mus. Bibl. III 8° 117, which wants the Appendix, but is fully priced; and Douce PP 82, which contains the Appendix, and in which Douce has noted his purchases and those of certain others; Peter Elmsley, bookseller, The Strand, London, acted for the Bodleian Library.
Provenance nameGeorge, WilliamWilliam George's Sons Ltd (nineteenth/twentieth century); booksellers, 104 High St., Oxford, and in Bristol; in 1929 George's was taken over by Blackwell's, but still traded under the original name; see A.L.P. Norrington, Blackwell's 1879-1979 (Oxford, 1983), 96 and 132-3.
Provenance namePinelli, Maffeo (1735-1785), 1735 - 1785 (Male) conte, state printer of Venice; see Frati 462-3; Parenti II 85; Clarke, Repertorium, 498-504; the Pinelli books carry no specific marks of ownership (though bound and lettered in a small number of distinctive styles), but, inside the front cover, in the same place in the top inner corner, about an inch from the hinge and half an inch from the top edge, are written in ink in a single hand the sale lot number and a number referring to the catalogue of the Pinelli library compiled by the librarian of the Biblioteca Marciana, Jacopo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno jam studio collecta (Venice, 1787); the whole library was bought by the London bookseller, James Edwards, for £600, and auctioned by him: Bibliotheca Pinelliana. A Catalogue of the Magnificent and Celebrated Library of Maffei Pinelli, Late of Venice (London: James Edwards, 2 Mar. 1789); the Bodleian has two copies, Mus. Bibl. III 8° 117, which wants the Appendix, but is fully priced; and Douce PP 82, which contains the Appendix, and in which Douce has noted his purchases and those of certain others; Peter Elmsley, bookseller, The Strand, London, acted for the Bodleian Library.