Description: Gold-tooled fillet towards outer edges of boards on brown mottled calf binding, with gold-tooled armorial centrepiece (unidentified: ducal coronet; quarterly (one and four) lion rampant with eight crescents[?], tower with turrets (two and three), over all chequered.
Source:
Polybius. Carani, Lelio, translator. Strozzi, Giovanni Battista, translator. Aelianus tacticus., Polibio del modo dell' accampare tr. per P. Strozzi. Calculo della castrametatione di B. Cavalcanti. , Fiorenza, 1552
Century:
17th
Type: Coat of arms Decoration Binding
Technique: Gold
Notes: Part of the Mortara collection in the Bodleian, bought from Alessandro De Mortara in 1852. For more information see: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/catalogues/rare_books_named_collections/rare_books_named_collection_descriptions#De%20Mortara
Last Edited: 2020/09/23 13:06:51
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