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7.
1514.
VIRGILIUS PUBLIUS MARO.
Opera.
Venice, Aldus
Manutius.
Format: 8vo
Location: Ahmanson Murphy Collection, UCLA – LOS ANGELES (USA)
Provenance: (1) Lionel Robinson – his sale Sotheby’s 1986; (2) Lawrence Witten.
Note: no copies on blue paper mentioned by Renouard. Possibly a second Grolier
copy with illuminated initials similar to Grolier’s style. Z 233 A4V819 1514 c.2
(shelfmark).
8.
1514.
VIRGILIUS PUBLIUS MARO.
Opera.
Venice, Aldus
Manutius.
Format: 8vo
Location: Clark Art Institute, WILLIAMSTOWN (USA)
Provenance: (1) Jean Grolier; (2) La Baume; (3) Lefrancois;; (4) Isabelle Gontan De
La Baume-Pluvinal, her sale Paris 1934; Robert Sterling Clark;.
Note: no copies on blue paper mentioned by Renouard; Mentioned by Austin, The
library of Jean Grolier as 99.9. Robert Sterling Clark Collection “B” (shelfmark).
9.
1514.
PETRARCA FRANCESCO. Il Petrarcha. Venice, Aldus
Manutius.
Format: 8vo
Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION – ITALY
Provenance: -
Note: no copies on blue paper mentioned by Renouard; copy is imperfect lacking
first quire, originally printed in white/blue paper, with the section on “MORTE DI
MADONNA LAURA” purposely printed in blue as proof of reverence by the printer
for the death of Laura. Same conditions as CENSUS 11.