Details

Fingerprint:

lae- o.do s.s, AlLa (3) 1624 (A)

Subjects:

David, King of Israel -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
David, King of Israel.

Form/Genre:

Poetry.

Place of Publication:

Italy Venice.

Notes:

Date appears before printer's name on title leaf.
Signatures: a⁴ A-2D⁸ 2E⁴.
Engraved title leaf.
Woodcut initials and head-pieces.
Tail-pieces.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lea Library Maintenance Fund.
Cassuto Collection copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal.
Cassuto Collection copy has bookplate (on front pastedown) and armorial blind stamp (on title leaf) of the library of Alfonso Cassuto.
Cassuto Collection copy has largely effaced dated 17th-century(?) autograph ("Hamburgo 10: ottue. 648[...] David[?] [...]") in brown ink on front free endpaper, with partial ms. transcription ("DAVID") in pencil of effaced portion.
Cassuto Collection copy bound in full early parchment; evidence of 2 fore-edge ties; ms. spine title ("David, poema heroico, Dr. Jacobo Uziel, Ao 1624."); all edges red.
Cassuto Collection copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of another(?) copy of this work with a few ms. notes in ink and pencil affixed to front pastedown.
Cassuto Collection copy: leaves a3-a4 bound in after leaf A8, with ms. note in pencil on leaf a2v recording the misbinding.
Cassuto Collection copy: leaves dampstained; occasional tears in tail or head margins; small hole in lower portion of leaf P3 with minor damage to text on recto.

Penn Provenance:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990 (bookplate) (former owner) (stamp) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1624

Cited in:

Gallardo 4124

Contributor:

Barezzi, Barezzo, approximately 1560- printer.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.
Henry Charles Lea Fund.
Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

OCLC:

42188893

Web link:

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