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Italian 15th Century artists (Venetian and Ferrarese), Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo (author)

De plurimis claris selectisque Mulieribus, published April 1497, borders dated 1493

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Medium

bound volume with 172 woodcut vignette portraits, including 116 repeats from 52 blocks, plus two large frontispieces

Dimensions

book: 32.2 x 21.5 x 4.5 cm (12 11/16 x 8 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

The New Century Fund, The Eugene L. and Louise Garbáty Fund, the Clark Charitable Foundation and the Edward MacCrone Fund

Accession Number

2010.117.1

Artists / Makers

Italian 15th Century (artist)

Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo (author) Italian, 1434 - 1520

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Inscription

in brown ink throughout: (not deciphered)

Provenance

(Sims Reed Ltd., London); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Sims Reed Limited

Bibliography

1964: Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American Libraries, a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections.New York, 1964: no. J-204.

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