Layout: 18 long lines Script: Italic Binding: Bound, s. XIX, in half leather over painted pasteboards. Provenance: On the front pastedown, note of “coll. complete” signed by J[oseph / Giuseppe] Martini, bookseller of Lucca, New York and Lugano; this note is dated “[6?]5. New York 1912.” Provenance: On front flyleaf, bookplate of Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947); printed label from the NY Academy of Medicine with the acquisition date of 1928; on f. 1v, stamp of the NY Academy of Medicine, date of 17 December 1934, and acquisition number. The scribe, Lazarus a Parentibus of Genoa was the recipient of a letter addressed to him in May 1527 by Erasmus; the purpose of the letter was to introduce its carrier, Crato Stalburg, a friend of Erasmus’s, to Lazarus (see Peter G. Bietenholz, et al., Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, University of Toronto, 1985, vols. 1-3 p. 51). Camillo Querno (Monopoli, 1470 - Naples, 1530), Carmen; this 12-line poem is not included in the list of Querno’s works in Mirabile: Archivio digitale della cultura medievale at http://www.mirabileweb.it/calma/camillus-quernus-monopolitanus-archipoeta-n-4-5-8-1470-m-1530/974 Jacopo Cattaneo Lagomarsini, Opus de morbo gallico [Turin: Bernardinus Silva, 1532] with dedication to the Genoese admiral, Andrea Doria (1466-1560); this copy was produced in 1524, according to its colophon. Jacopo Lagomarsini was born in 1455/1460 and died in 1531; he took the name “Cattaneo” in 1528. See Edward C. Streeter, “The Date of Lacumarcino’s ‘De morbo gallico’,” 17th International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913, Section XXIII, 1914, pp. 373-376.
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