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LIVY. T. Livius Patavinus historicus duobus libris auctus: cum L. Flori Epitome & Leonardo Aretino de primo bello punico. Ed. Lucas Panaetius. Venice: Melchior Sessa and Pietro de Ravani, 3rd May 1520.
Super-chancery 2° (298 x 203mm). 366 leaves. Mostly roman type. Title printed in red and black. Fine woodcut portrait of the author on title signed z.a., 31 woodcuts (4 blocks signed z.a.); 4-block woodcut border of scenes from Roman history, the right-hand strip signed z.a. (Sessa's cat-and-mouse device removed from title, affecting also a few letters on verso.) CONTEMPORARY TRANSYLVANIAN BLIND-TOOLED BINDING, brown calf over wooden boards, sides with roll-tooled outer border of grotesque figures in foliage, inner border of floral ornament, rosette tool repeated in central compartment, spine tooled in compartments, (leather defective in places, clasps removed). Provenance: Kolozsvár or Cluj, episcopal library (title and pressmark written in ink across the fore-edges: Titus Livius Vol. Cath [volumen cathedralis] Ung. Colos. [Ungariae Colosvariensis] Qg.)
First appearance of any of these woodcuts. If the artist is Zoan Andrea, he is different from the 15th-century engraver associated with Mantegna drawings, but the same as the illustrator of the Paganini Apocalypse. The portrait of Livy is inspired by an early memorial tablet at Padua. The decoration on the Hungarian binding follows early 16th-century German examples, but the treatment of the spine is very distinctive. Essling 41; Mortimer 261.
Super-chancery 2° (298 x 203mm). 366 leaves. Mostly roman type. Title printed in red and black. Fine woodcut portrait of the author on title signed z.a., 31 woodcuts (4 blocks signed z.a.); 4-block woodcut border of scenes from Roman history, the right-hand strip signed z.a. (Sessa's cat-and-mouse device removed from title, affecting also a few letters on verso.) CONTEMPORARY TRANSYLVANIAN BLIND-TOOLED BINDING, brown calf over wooden boards, sides with roll-tooled outer border of grotesque figures in foliage, inner border of floral ornament, rosette tool repeated in central compartment, spine tooled in compartments, (leather defective in places, clasps removed). Provenance: Kolozsvár or Cluj, episcopal library (title and pressmark written in ink across the fore-edges: Titus Livius Vol. Cath [volumen cathedralis] Ung. Colos. [Ungariae Colosvariensis] Qg.)
First appearance of any of these woodcuts. If the artist is Zoan Andrea, he is different from the 15th-century engraver associated with Mantegna drawings, but the same as the illustrator of the Paganini Apocalypse. The portrait of Livy is inspired by an early memorial tablet at Padua. The decoration on the Hungarian binding follows early 16th-century German examples, but the treatment of the spine is very distinctive. Essling 41; Mortimer 261.