Io. Baptistae Donii Patricii Florentini Inscriptiones Antiquae Nunc Primum Editae Notisque Illustratae Et XXVI. Indicibus Auctae Ab Antonio Francisco Gorio Publico Historiarum Professore Accedunt Deorum Arae Tabulis Incisae Cum Observationibus
In the Royal Academy's copy the numbered plates are bound in in the following order: 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 7, 6, 8-12.
Contents
[T.p., dedic., port.] - Praefatio - In Aras Deorum Et Antiqua Monumenta Addita Inscriptionibus Donianis Observationes ... - In Marmora opere anaglypho sculpta, & Gemmas antiquas, quæ hunc librum ornant Observationes - Virorum Nobilissimorum Nomina Quibus Tabulae in aere incisae dedicatae sunt - [Text, with pl.] - Caroli Dati Patricii Florentini Notae In Inscriptiones Antiquas Io. Baptistae Donii - Elenchus Codicum MMSS (Librorum Editorum) - Indices XXV Harum Inscriptionum ... - Nomenclatura Insciptionum Antiquarum ... - Addenda - Errata Emendanda - Approbationes.
Responsibility Note
The first three numbered plates are signed 'VF S'; the others are unsigned. The portrait of Giovanni Battista Doni is signed as drawn by Io. Dom. Feretti and engraved by Vinco. Franceschini Schul Firenz'. The title-page vignette is signed 'V.FS F'; other decorations and in-text illustrations are unsigned.
The work is dedicated by A.F. Gori to Ferrante Capponi. Each of the twelve plates is dedicated - most to eminent Florentines, two to Dutch scholars, and two to Britons (Thomas Dereham and Francis Colman).
Provenance
Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
20th-century half calf, green cloth-covered boards, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Doni Inscriptiones Antique', spine lettered 'R.A.'
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