Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 112

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[FOLENGO, TEOFILO.] Opus Merlini Cocaii<> [pseud.] Poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum.<> Zetzner woodcut device on title; 28 woodcut text illustrations. 541, [8] pages, including register/colophon leaf. 12mo, contemporary vellum; abrasion across A3r slightly affecting text. Signature on title of the Frisian historian and classicist Simon Abbes Gabbema (1628-88). Venice: apud Bevilacquam [i. e., Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner?], 1613

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Later illustrated edition of the best-known 16th-century work of macaronic verse, blending Latin and Italian for comic effect. Wilkins, pages 205-07.<