Curiositez inouyes, hoc est: Curiositates inauditae de figuris Persarum talismanicis, horoscopo patriarchum et characteribus coelestibus Jacobi Gaffarelli, Latinè cum notis quibusdam ac figuris editae, operâ M. Gregorii Michaelis, praepositi Regii Flensburgensis.
Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Hamburg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007281
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1 ([60], 65, 62-290, [2]; 303, [1], 304-498, [53] p., [15] leaves of plates (12 folded)) : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5777. Leaves )o()o(1-2 containing "Index notarum" are mis-bound at end between )()(3-4. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 3. leaves of the Index are misplaced at the end. vid. Ordo Chartarum after pag. 498" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; double blind fillet border, with additional blind roll pattern along spine-edge; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind-tooled spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681) Gregorius Michaelis (1625-1686)