Michaelis Mercati Samminiatensis Metallotheca. Opus posthumum, auctoritate, & munificentiâ Clementis Undecimi Pontificis Maximi e tenebris in lucem eductum; opera autem, & studio Joannis Mariae Lancisii archiatri pontificii illustratum. Cui accessit appendix cum XIX. recens inventis iconibus.
Michele Mercati (1541-1593)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007267
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1 ([8], xiij-lxiv, 378, [18] p., [8] leaves of plates (2 double leaves, 4 single); 53, [3] p.) : ill. (metal cut), ports. ; fol. Running number: 5842. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. Tho' figg. not altogether in their places" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Price (scribbled over) and code "(9) PO" both written in pencil on front fly-leaf. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf (rubbed); gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Michele Mercati (1541-1593), author Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720), editor Pietro Assalti (1680-1728), author Carlo Maiello (1665-1738), author Pietro Bianchi (Rome 1694 – Rome 1740), artist Sebastiano Conca (Gaeta 1680 – Naples 1764), artist Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752), engraver (printmaker) Louis Gomier (fl.1713-1730), engraver (printmaker)