Cosmographia

TitleCosmographia
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1490
AuthorsPtolemy,
CityRome
LibraryPierpont Morgan Library
BindingBound in brown goatskin, tooled in gold to a fanfare design, with the stamp inserted in gold
Notes

The book was illuminated for the Frescobaldi family of Florence. Described and illustrated by George F. Barwick. A book bound for Mary Queen of Scots. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1901, and discussed by G.D. Hobson in Les reliures à la fanfare. London, 1935, pages 73-75. The illustration in the latter work is from a photograph, that in the earlier work, though handsome, is inaccurate in detail

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Monogram Greek Phi and two Ms Crown royal crown with three arches, three fleurs-de-lys on the circlet and a cross at the junction of the arches. Motto SA * VERTV * MATIRE *