Lazari Bayfii Annotationes in L. II. De captiuis, & postliminio reuersis: in quibus tractatur De re nauali. Eiusdem annotationes in tractatum De auro & argento leg. quibus vestimentorum & vasculorum genera explicantur. Omnia ab ipso authore recognita & aucta. Antonii Thylesii De coloribus libellus, à coloribus vestium non alienus.
Lazare de Baïf (1496 - 1547)
Category
Books
Date
1549
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3009074
Summary
Bibliographic description
152, [8], 176, [12] p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 4to. Running number: 7222. Some woodcuts are hand-coloured. Quire C is misbound: sigs. C3-4 and C5-6 transposed. Top corner of front fly-leaf cut away. Water-staining at foot of leaves throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Beaupreo Bell Donum Amicissimi Viri Thomae Hull. A.M. 1729" [i.e. given by Beaupré Bell to one Thomas Hull. Beaupré Bell (1704-1741) was an antiquarian and numismatist, of Beaupré Hall, Outwell, Norfolk. As a member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society he would have known Sir Richard Ellys, in whose library this book now resides. LoC gives his date of death as 1745. Thomas Hull is possibly the Thomas Hull listed in Alumni Cantabrigienses as at Jesus College, Cambridge; B.A. 1725-6; M.A. 1729. Son of John, of Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire. Ordained (Lincoln) May 24, 1730. Curate of Elstow, Bedfordshire, 1725-6. The Bodleian has a manuscript given by Bell to Hull]. Manuscript initial and inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. folia quaedam post p. 36. perturbantur" [i.e. catalogue code and note about quire C, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "10-6". Manuscript inscription on title page: "Beauprei Bell ex Dono Amicissimi Viri Thomae Hull. A.M. 1729". Manuscript inscription beneath printer's device on title page: "APICTEYEIN". Annotated throughout in very neat hand, presumably by Beaupré Bell. Manuscript inscription beneath end of text on sig. Y5v: "APICTEYEIN. 1729". Manuscript booksellers'[?] codes on rear pastedown. Binding: eighteenth-century full gold-tooled mottled calf; sewn onto six sewing supports; double gilt fillet border; cross-shaped centrepiece of repeated gilt foliate and decorative stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; blind roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with stamp, fillet and roll decoration; gilt title on brown leather label and gilt imprint lettered directly onto spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lazare de Baïf (1496 - 1547), author Antonio Telesio (1482-1533), author Charles Estienne (1504-1564), editor