Epigrammata antiquae. urbis cautum. edicto. Leonis. X. Pont. Opt. Max. ne. quis. in. septennium. hoc. opus. excudat alioqui. reus. esto noxamque pendito.
Jacobus Mazochius (fl. 1506-1527)
Category
Books
Date
1521
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008534
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], CLXXXI [i.e. CLXXX], [8] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 6957. Top corner of front fly-leaf torn off (to remove a price?), a feature common to some books in Blickling's library. Quire pi has been wrongly folded and bound in the following order: 1, 2, 9, 10, 5, 3, 4, 7, 8, 6. Provenance: manuscript initial and inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. But Val. Probus is wrong folded" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. With Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ι½." [i.e. Iota½ = Greek number 10½]. Manuscript codes on front pastedown: "(s)-(t)" (in pencil), "872" (in ink) and "H. 2960" (in ink at foot of leaf). Price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf, crossed-out in ink. Manuscript initials on title page: "C.P.". With manuscript additions and corrections to the printed text plus annotations, marginal notes and markings on many leaves (e.g. I-IIII, XXX, XXXVIII, CLXIII, CLXV), all written in a contemporary sixteenth-century hand in brown ink (some washed-out). Exact copies of various Roman inscriptions drawn and written on verso of final leaf aa8 and on 6 blank leaves bound-in at the end, all in a contemporary sixteenth-century hand in black ink. Manuscript code on rear pastedown: "816" (in ink). Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; brown leather title label on spine; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jacobus Mazochius (fl. 1506-1527), compiler Marcus Valerius Probus (c.20/30-105 AD), author Angelo Colocci (1474-1549), compiler Francesco Albertini (fl.1493 - 1510), compiler Andrea Fulvio (1510-1543), compiler