Object details
Object number
7.1.9
Creator(s)
Title
Orlando Furioso
Date
1595
Medium
Printed ink on paper; leather
Language
Italian
Publication Place
Venice
Binding Description
Brown leather binding with gilded decoration on boards and gilded lettering on spine
Description
265 pages, [5] ; 16°
Dimensions
16.5 x 11 x 4 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Bookplate (inside front cover, center): Samuel Bosanquet Esq.
Inscribed in black ink (inside front cover, bottom left): F / G17
Inscribed in black ink (front flyleaf, top right): BVorster / 1711
Inscribed in blue pencil (front flyleaf, top right): 4.00/40
Inscribed in black ink (title page, top): Academie Amstel[?]
Provenance
In the collection of English barrister Samuel Richard Bosanquet (1800-1882).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the auctioneers and appraisers Charles F. Libbie & Co., Boston, for 62 1/2 cents on 29 April 1886, lot 70.
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. 5.
Gallery
Long Gallery
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