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Venus and the Mandrake
Destructorium vitiorum ex similitudinum creaturarum exemplorum appropriatione per modum dyalogi
Venus and the Mandrake

Destructorium vitiorum ex similitudinum creaturarum exemplorum appropriatione per modum dyalogi

Maynus de Mayneriis (Italian, died in 1368)
Unidentified artist, Swiss, 16th century (Swiss, 16th century)
Jean Belot (active 1493–1512)
1500
Place of PublicationGeneva, Switzerland
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 123 woodcuts
DimensionsOverall: 26.6 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 x 7/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number53.17
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ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description
Geneva: Jean Belot, 1500
ProvenanceEarly ownership[?] inscription below printer's mark on fol. m5r; a later one on title page; William H. Schab, New York, from whom purchased by MFA, January 8, 1953.