Life of the Distinguished
author
Cornelius Nepos
(active Rome, about 110 BCE - about 24 CE)
author
Francesco Petrarch
(Arezzo, 1304 - 1374, Arquà Petrarca)
printer
Heinrich Petri
(active Basel, 1527 - 1579)
translator
Antonio Bonfini
(Patrigone, 1427 - 1503, Budapest)
editor
Girolamo Maggi
(Anghiari, about 1523 - 1572, Istanbul)
editor
Hermann Witekind
(Neuenrade , 1522 - 1603, Heidelberg)
editor
Konrad Lykosthenes
(Rouffach, 1518 - 1561, Basel)
Date1563
Place MadeSwitzerland, Europe
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.a.5.4
eMuseum ID722781
Other NumberARC.007731
EmbARK ObjectID20884
TMS Source ID7432
Last Updated8/9/24
Description[28], 695 pages ; FStatus
Not on viewWeb 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 Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court. (Boston, 1922), p. 71.
ProvenanceNotesCollection of Jules, Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and stateman (1602-1661).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from booksellers J.Pearson & Co., London for £75 on 18 Novmeber 1901.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from booksellers J.Pearson & Co., London for £75 on 18 Novmeber 1901.
J. Pearson & Co.
1922
