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Aristotelis De Arte Rhetorica Lib. Tres

author Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)

author Anaximenes of Lampsacus (active Lapseki, Turkey, about 380 BCE - about 320 BCE)

printer Joannes Franciscus Trincavellus (active Venice, 1535 - 1537)

printer Bartolomeo Zanetti (active Florence, Rome and Venice, 1514 - 1545)

binder Clarke & Bedford (British, 1841 - 1850)

Date1536

Place MadeItaly, Europe

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions15.5 x 10.5 x 2.2 cm (6 1/8 x 4 1/8 x 7/8 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number3.T.9

eMuseum ID719989

EmbARK ObjectID17818

TMS Source ID6034

Last Updated8/9/24

Description8º.

Status

Not on view

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BibliographyNotesCharles F. Libbie and Co. Catalogue of the Library, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Maps and Prints Forming the Collection of Gerald E. Hart, esq., of Montreal, to be sold by auction, Apr. 15th to 19th, 1890, Charles F. Libbie & co., auctioneers (Boston, 1890), p. 21.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), p. 58.

MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (inside front cover, top left): 203
Bookplate (inside front cover, center): John Fuller Russell / Mea Dos Virtus
Inscribed in ink (title page, top): Sum Dio Grat.
Signed in black ink (title page, top): Thomas Taylor
Signed in black ink (title page, bottom): Crux Christi clavis Coeli / E.R.
Enclosed: Notes (ARC.007708)

ProvenanceNotesCollection of King Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553).
Collection of Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), English translator and Neoplatonist.
Collection of John Fuller Russell (1813-1884), English priest and writer.
Collection of Gerald E. Hart (1849-1936), Montreal.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the sale of the Hart Collection through the auctioneers Charles F. Libbie and Company, Boston, for $25 on 15 April 1890.