Io. Bartholomei Marliani patricii Mediolanen. Antiquae Romae topographia libri septem

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8vo. ff. [2] (blank), [16], 170, [3] (last blank). Signatures: AA-BB⁸, A-X⁸, Y⁴. 17th-18th century vellum. 1st blank: manuscript inscriptions in 2 hands, one repeated on title page. Marginalia on ff. 57v, 59r, 61v, 190r, 111r, 119v, 143 r. F. 86 called 89. Engraved vignettes on title page and recto of leaf [171]. First edition. Contains the forged Roman will of ‘Gallus Favonius Jucundus’, attributed by Antonio Agustín (Dialoghi intorno alla medaglie inscrittioni et altre antichita (Rome [1592]; first Spanish publication, Saragossa, 1587)) to the antiquary Fra Giovanni Giocondo (c.1433–c.1515), but this may not be fair. An edition by Rabelais was printed in 1534 at Lyon by Gryphius. See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, M 609. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.