Title: Io. Bartholomei Marliani patricii Mediolanen. Antiquae Romae topographia libri septem
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">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].</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">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,</span><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">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.</span></p><p></p>

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