4to (272 x 169 mm). Roman type, 20 lines in verse plus headline. collation: A-G⁶ g² H-K⁶ L-M⁴ (final verso blank): 70 leaves. Initial spaces with printed guides, marginal manuscript Latin commentary to A4r (Some light spotting and marginal dampstaining throughout, A4-5 and B3-4 more heavily dampstained, small scattered wormholes to so🍃me 𒀰leaves, leaves A3-4 ?trimmed and remargined.)

binding: Contemporary Neapolitan red morocco (280 x 174 mm) over thin wooden boards, medallion binding, border of multiple b🦩lind and single gilt fillet enclosing repeated gilt arabesque tool, on upper cover gilt portrait medallion of Sannazaro in bas relief surrounded by "ACTIVS SYNCERVS", within gilt roundel of trefoils (medallion taken from portrait medal by Girolamo Santacroce, c. 1524), on lower cover a nativity scene from reverse of Santacroce's medal within roundel, spine with 3 full bands, traces of 4 pairs of green fabric ties, edges gilt and gauffered. (Spine ends renewed, lower compartment becoming detached, binding somewhat rubbed and scraped, worming to pastedowns and boards, including to upper medallion.)

provenance: "Jo. Bdste Prufini", inked-over ownership inscription to title—"Casimirus Donaldi Taurinensis Juris utriusque Baccalaureus", multiple inscriptions dated 1757, 1759 and 1761—Louis-Alexandre Gitton du Plessis (1800-1888), armorial ex-libris to upper pastedown. acquisition: Purchased in 2006 from Philip J. Pirages, McMinnville, OR. references: USTC 854623; for the same medallion on a binding for Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, see A. Hobson, "Census of Plaquette and Medallion Bindings", in Humanists and Bookbinders, 1989, fig. 91, p. 226; A. Hobson, Renaissance book collecting, 1999, p.84