Object details
Object number
7.1.15
Creator(s)
Title
Cecropia: Or, On the Citadel of Athens and Antiquities[Cecropia, sive, De arce Athenarum et ejusdem antiquitatibus, liber singularis]
Date
1622
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
Greek
Publication Place
Leiden
Binding Description
Brown leather binding with gilded lettering on spine
Description
2 v. in 1 ; 12°
Dimensions
19 x 15 x 3 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in black ink (front flyleaf reverse): Meursii Cecropia: Lugd. Bad. 1622 / Meursii Areogapus: Lugd. Bad. 1624...
Inscribed in pencil (title page, top right): Read June 16, 1769 / Harley Thus.
Inscribed in black ink (title page reverse): "I shall here say. once for all, I am more in- / debted to Meurinus than to any other Writer...
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the auctioneers and appraisers Charles F. Libbie & Co. Boston for $0.50 on 29 April 1886, lot 616.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 48.
Gallery
Long Gallery
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