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GRAPALDI, Francisco Mario. De partibus aedium libellus cum additamentis emendatissimus. [Parma: Francesco Ugoleto], May 1501.
4°, 132 leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes. Small Lombard capitals, white-on-black woodcut initials in various sizes. (Title soiled and stained, occasional spotting or marginal soiling, small marginal tear to k7.) Modern binding of vellum from a 15th-century choirbook leaf over pasteboard. Provenance: Maia(?) Casalis (early ownership inscription on title with 6-line note, by a later owner, a few marginal notes relating to Latin vocabulary or commenting on the text in the same hand); one or two other 16th-century marginalia; numerous later marginalia in a small neat 17th- or 18th-century hand discussing the text and referring to works of classical literature.
Second edition. This unusual treatise on domestic quarters amounts to a sort of architectural dictionary, containing separate sections devoted to different parts of the house, including the kitchen, library, aviary, stable and nursery, and elucidating terms relating to construction, gardening and the domestic arts. Grapaldi, who refers in his work to a wide range of classical sources, was one of the first scholars of his time to recognize the significance of Aulus Cornelius Celsus's De medicina, a manuscript of which had only recently been rediscovered after the work had fallen into oblivion during the Middle Ages. The present edition, the second of at least 12 printed in less than forty years, adds to the text of Ugoleto's 1494 edition an 11-leaf table of contents and index. Adams G-1006; BL STC Italian, p. 310; Fowler 142.
4°, 132 leaves. Roman type, shoulder notes. Small Lombard capitals, white-on-black woodcut initials in various sizes. (Title soiled and stained, occasional spotting or marginal soiling, small marginal tear to k7.) Modern binding of vellum from a 15th-century choirbook leaf over pasteboard. Provenance: Maia(?) Casalis (early ownership inscription on title with 6-line note, by a later owner, a few marginal notes relating to Latin vocabulary or commenting on the text in the same hand); one or two other 16th-century marginalia; numerous later marginalia in a small neat 17th- or 18th-century hand discussing the text and referring to works of classical literature.
Second edition. This unusual treatise on domestic quarters amounts to a sort of architectural dictionary, containing separate sections devoted to different parts of the house, including the kitchen, library, aviary, stable and nursery, and elucidating terms relating to construction, gardening and the domestic arts. Grapaldi, who refers in his work to a wide range of classical sources, was one of the first scholars of his time to recognize the significance of Aulus Cornelius Celsus's De medicina, a manuscript of which had only recently been rediscovered after the work had fallen into oblivion during the Middle Ages. The present edition, the second of at least 12 printed in less than forty years, adds to the text of Ugoleto's 1494 edition an 11-leaf table of contents and index. Adams G-1006; BL STC Italian, p. 310; Fowler 142.