Descrizione istorica del sacro real monistero di Monte Casino
Subtitle: Con una breve notizia della fu antica citta di Casino, e della presente di S. Germano. Per uso e comodo de' forestieri
Contributors: Cepparuli, Francesco; Guglielmelli, Arcangelo, d. 1723; Fratelli Raimondi
Edition: Seconda edizione, dal medesimo autore corretta ed accresciuta.
Publisher: per i fratelli Raimondi
Published: 1775
Place of publication: In Napoli
Language: ita
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Montecassino (Monastery); History; Description and travel; Antiquities
Notes: By Flavio della Marra. See Melzi.

First published 1751.

Plates are interior view of basilica of Monte Casino and bird's-eye view of the monastery as a whole, both etched by Francesco Cepparuli, the first after Arcangelo Guglielmelli.

Signatures: a-ǵı h́œ A-Óı Q-2B́ı.

Errata, p. 178-[182].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Melzi, G.  Anonyme et pseudonyme, I, 288

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3

Binding, c. 1: coarse gray paper, backed in pink paper. Title written at head of spine. Inscription on front flyleaf verso: D. Honorabus Buonamici, Monachus Casinensis in Abbatia Florentina, 1790; printed list of abbots of Monte Cassino that ends on p. 317 has been continued in MS through the year 1797, perhaps in the same hand. Property stamp in blue ink on t.p.: Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti Flor. (Gustavo Camillo Galletti, 1805-1868). Printed label of Horatius (Orazio) Landau, stamped with shelf mark 26380.

Binding, c. 2: 19th-century vellum, spine gilt tooled with title on label, page edges mottled red & tan. Bookplate of Alexander Cochrane. Signature of Ellis Waterhouse. Monogram property stamps on t.p. (GMVZ?).