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Date appears before printer's name on title leaf.; Signatures: a⁴ A-2D⁸ 2E⁴.; Engraved title leaf.; Woodcut initials and head-pieces.; Tail-pieces.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lea Library Maintenance Fund.; Cassuto Collection copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown.; Alfonso Cassuto Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal.; Cassuto Collection copy has bookplate (on front pastedown) and armorial blind stamp (on title leaf) of the library of Alfonso Cassuto.; Cassuto Collection copy has largely effaced dated 17th-century(?) autograph ("Hamburgo 10: ottue. 648[...] David[?] [...]") in brown ink on front free endpaper, with partial ms. transcription ("DAVID") in pencil of effaced portion.; Cassuto Collection copy bound in full early parchment; evidence of 2 fore-edge ties; ms. spine title ("David, poema heroico, Dr. Jacobo Uziel, Ao 1624."); all edges red.; Cassuto Collection copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of another(?) copy of this work with a few ms. notes in ink and pencil affixed to front pastedown.; Cassuto Collection copy: leaves a3-a4 bound in after leaf A8, with ms. note in pencil on leaf a2v recording the misbinding.; Cassuto Collection copy: leaves dampstained; occasional tears in tail or head margins; small hole in lower portion of leaf P3 with minor damage to text on recto.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, PQ6437.U95 D3 1624
Collection:
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund; Henry Charles Lea Fund; Lea Library Maintenance Fund
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