Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, tam accurate congestus, vt nihil penè in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglicè, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca: opera & industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi posint excerpere, & quam rationem secutus author sit in vocabulorum interpretatione & dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur. Accessit dictionarium historicum et poëticum propria vocabula virorum, mulierum, sectarum, populorum, vrbium, montium, & caeterorum locorum complectens, & in his iucundissimas & omnium cognitione dignissimas historias.
Thomas Cooper (1517-1594)
Category
Books
Date
1565
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3013938
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1812] p. ; fol. Former shelfmark: 27.f.16-17. Running number: 8044. Bound in 2 v. Vol. 1 contains leaves (*)1-4C5 (Alitera-Lysis), vol. 2 contains leaves 4C6-²R6 (Macellum-Zythum). Both vols. interleaved with blank leaves throughout. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf ²R6. Provenance: two manuscript inscriptions at head of title page: the earlier[?] one has been obliterated with black ink, the later[?] one reads "Sù[...] Cornelij Sladi Anno 1611 scriptùm Aùgùsto vigessimo 8" [this is possibly Cornelius Slade (1599-1678), who in 1628 succeeded his father Matthew as rector of the Latin School in Amsterdam; his library was sold in Amsterdam in 1689]. Interleaved blank leaves contain manuscript notes in seventeenth-century hand relating to the text on the facing printed pages. With manuscript marginal annotations and notes in same seventeenth-century hand on some printed pages. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound blind-tooled calf, with nonpareil pattern marbled paper over boards; sewn on five sewing supports; blind-tooled spines at head and foot, with panels of fillets, roll patterns and approximations of old binders' stamps; gilt author, title, vol. number, date and contents stamped on spines; red sprinked bookblock edges; fore-edge of interleaved leaves untrimmed; nonpareil pattern marbed endpapers; nineteenth-century fly-leaves.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cooper (1517-1594), author Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), author Berthelet, Thomas, publisher Henry Wykes (fl.1555 - 1572), printer Berthelet, Thomas, printer