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(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Emblematum Liber
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Emblematum Liber

author (Milan, 1492 - 1550, Pavia)
printer (active Lyon, 1545 - 1589)
engraver (Paris, about 1530 - after 1590)
translator (Italian, active 16th century)
Date1564
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper; woodcuts
Dimensions18 x 12 x 3.5 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number7.1.11
eMuseum ID719803
EmbARK ObjectID17825
TMS Source ID6041
Last Updated8/9/24
Description191, [1] pages (the last blank) : ill. ; 19 cm (8°)
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 1.
MarksNotesBookplate (inside front cover): EX LIBRIS / ISABELLA
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection before 1906.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
1906
(c) 2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Unknown
mid 19th century - late 19th century
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer marquis d' Argens
1737
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Edmund Clarence Stedman
1860
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
George Edward Woodberry
1883
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
John Tyler Wheelwright
1880
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Irving Bacheller
1899
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Henry James
1880
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Mary Larcom Dow
1921