Biblioteca Manoscritta di Tommaso Giuseppe Farsetti, Patrizio Veneto. by [MORELLI (Jacopo)] Compiler

Stamperia Fenzo, Venice. 1771. Small 8vo, xxii,[ii],404,[2]pp., recent dark brown morocco, red morocco label on spine, uncut. The catalogue of the MSS collected by Farsetti (1720-1791), Venetian patrician, poet and book collector, and patron and friend of Morelli (1745-1819). Morelli, from 1778 a custodian of the Marciana, was variously balled by bibliographers and palaeographers master and prince of bibliography. The above catalogue, his first published work, with a long preface by him, describes 78 Latin and 165 Italian MSS. Farsetti left his MSS to the Marciana. From the library of Bernard Breslauer, New York.