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 3013938.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 2. Former shelfmark: 27.f.17. Running number: 8044. Contains leaves 4C6-²R6 (Macellum-Zythum). Interleaved with blank leaves throughout. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf ²R6. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound blind-tooled calf, with nonpareil pattern marbled paper over boards; sewn on five sewing supports; blind-tooled spine 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 spine; 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, printer Henry Wykes (fl.1555 - 1572), printer Berthelet, Thomas, publisher