Threnodia academiae Cantabrigiensis in immaturum obitum illustrissimi ac desideratissimi principis Gulielmi Ducis Glocestrensis.
University of Cambridge
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3006933
Summary
Bibliographic description
[136] p. ; fol. Running number: 7287. Thinner paper issue. Provenance: manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf (half torn off): "Greg: Clarke ..." [the rest smudged and illegible] [possibly Gregory Clarke (d. 1726). Adm. St Catharine's, Cambridge, 1697; B.A. 1701-2; M.A. 1705 -- cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses]. Manuscript code at head of third front fly-leaf: "A/-". Binding: late seventeenth-century sprinkled sheepskin (rubbed, front board loose); sewn onto five supports; double blind fillet border; blind fillets along raised bands on spine; gilt title lettered directly onto spine close to foot. Dark stained textblock edges. Printed waste visible through pastedowns, that beneath front pastedown appears to be printed leaf H2 from this publication.
Makers and roles
University of Cambridge , organisation Thomas Green (1658-1738) Bishop of Ely, author