Caroli Stephani, De nutrimentis, ad Baillyum, libri tres.
Charles Estienne (1504-1564)
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007274
Summary
Bibliographic description
156, [20] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5727. 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)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "β'" [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Manuscript inscriptions in sixteenth or seventeenth-century hands on title page: one inked over, "a m Sum M"[?] and "L Boursault". Binding: sixteenth-century limp vellum; sewn on four tawed leather supports; stubs remain of two pairs of tawed leather ties; spine cracked at head. Manuscript waste at rear.
Makers and roles
Charles Estienne (1504-1564)