Francesco Colonna

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo’s Dream about the Strife of Love),

Maker

Title

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo’s Dream about the Strife of Love)

Medium

woodcut

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Height: 38.1 x 57.2 x 3.5 cm (15 x 22 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, on titlepage, in a late sixteenth-century hand: "Emptus extitit prime [proxime?] Joannem Tartaleam Badiensem, qui me thesaurum non quaternis libris, sed infinito auro comparandum duxi; nullibi .n. reperiendum reperi, et repertum amitti videbar; eaque [?] nulli alteri inquam nisi fortasse philosophiae apprime candidato commodandum: quicumque legerit laudet, et restituat perlectum si valere volet"; and on the following page: "Poliam Frater Franciscus Columna Peramavit / Iunge numeros inventis paginis, et habebis nomen tanti Doctoris / Joannes Tartalea combinavit"

Marks: Watermark on laid paper in the binding; resembles Bricquet III, #9999; unicorn.

Place

Place Made: Venice; Place Made: Italy

Type

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

51.509

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Poliphilo’s Dream about the Strife of Love)

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, on titlepage, in a late sixteenth-century hand: "Emptus extitit prime [proxime?] Joannem Tartaleam Badiensem, qui me thesaurum non quaternis libris, sed infinito auro comparandum duxi; nullibi .n. reperiendum reperi, et repertum amitti videbar; eaque [?] nulli alteri inquam nisi fortasse philosophiae apprime candidato commodandum: quicumque legerit laudet, et restituat perlectum si valere volet"; and on the following page: "Poliam Frater Franciscus Columna Peramavit / Iunge numeros inventis paginis, et habebis nomen tanti Doctoris / Joannes Tartalea combinavit"

Marks: Watermark on laid paper in the binding; resembles Bricquet III, #9999; unicorn.

Place Made: Venice; Place Made: Italy

Publications

Exhibition History

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