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Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus
Destructorium vitiorum ex similitudinum creaturarum exemplorum appropriatione per modum dyalogi
Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus
Author: Maynus de Mayneriis (Italian, died in 1368)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Swiss, 16th century (Swiss, 16th century)
Printer: Jean Belot (active 1493–1512)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Swiss, 16th century (Swiss, 16th century)
Printer: Jean Belot (active 1493–1512)
1500
Place of Publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 123 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 26.6 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Francis Warden Fund
Accession Number53.17
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Geneva: Jean Belot, 1500
Catalogue Raisonné
Goff N-157; Schreiber, Manuel, 3813
Description(Geneva: Jean Belot, 1500) Folio; 69 leaves; levant doeskin binding, red cloth box (red leather spine).
Full-page author[?] portrait in his study (fol. a1v); small illustrations of animals in dialogue with each other; notable set of decorative initials.
Full-page author[?] portrait in his study (fol. a1v); small illustrations of animals in dialogue with each other; notable set of decorative initials.
ProvenanceEarly ownership[?] inscription below printer's mark on fol. m5r; a later one on title page; William H. Schab, New York, from whom purchased by MFA, January 8, 1953.