Tomitano, Coridon, Venice, [Paolo Manuzio], 1556, eighteenth-century calf

Tomitano, Bernardino. Coridon, siue de Venetorum laudibus. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1556

[Bound with:] Clonicus, siue de Reginaldi Poli, card. ampliss. Laudibus. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1556

Two short Neo-Latin poems by the Paduan doctor Bernardino Tomitano. The Coridon is in praise of Venice (or Venetians); the Clonicus is addressed to Cardinal Pole as leader of the Counter-Reformation. The two pieces were intended to be issued together: the Coridon usually contains a final quire with a poem addressed to Lorenzo Prioli, Doge of Venice, and an errata list for both works. In this copy the Coridon (possibly an early state?) lacks that quire, and the errors in the Coridon are corrected in ink.

2 works in one volume, 8vo (152 x 93 mm). Italic type, 26 lines plus headline. collation: Coridon: A-B^{8 2}A⁴ (-²A⁴): 16 (of 20) leaves; Clonicus: A⁸ B⁴: 12 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages, contemporary(?) blank slip pasted over 11 lines on A3 verso of first work, which may have been bearer type inked by mistake. (A few faint spots.)

binding: Eighteenth-century calf (154 x 97 mm), red and brown speckled edges. (Rebacked, edges and corners rubbed.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, shelfmark "E13.15" (18^th century) — Mary Augusta Elton (née Strachey) (1838–1914), ex libris — A catalogue of a portion of the library of Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton (London 1891), p. 195 ("Bound with the 'Coridon' of the same author"). acquisition: Purchased from H.M. Fletcher, London, 1996. references: (1) UCLA 505; Renouard 168/11; Edit16 28018; USTC 859349; (2) UCLA 504; Renouard 168/10; Edit16 28018; USTC 859349