Epistolarum D. Erasmi Roterodami libri XXXI. et P. Melancthonis libri IV. Quibus adjiciuntur Th. Mori & Lud. Vivis epistolae. Vnà cum indicibus locupletissimis.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1642
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005870
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 pts. in 1 v. ([36] p., 332, 335-438, 449-652, 651-722 columns, 723-780 p., 781-1488, 1487-1582, 1581-2146 columns, [37] p.; [12] p., 426, 425-889 columns, col. 990, 901-968, 116 columns, [10] p.) : port. ; fol. Running number: 5097. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "10-6". Manuscript booksellers' codes on front pastedown and fly-leaf: "y/e" and "dk/m". Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf (front board detached); double blind fillet border; double and single blind fillet panel, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind-tooled spine, with gilt title on red goatskin label. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Philipp Schwarzerd called Melanchthon (1497-1560), author Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), author Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540), author William Marshall (fl.1617-1650), engraver (printmaker)