Bibliotheca Eliotae = Eliotes dictionarie . the second tyme enriched, and more perfectly corrected, by Thomas Cooper, schole maister of Maudlens in Oxforde. This last edition, beside the addicion and correction of verie manie thynges, hath the proper names of most herbes that be agreed of among phisicions: the correction of weightes, measures, and coynes, with the applyinge of the same to our tyme.
Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546)
Category
Books
Date
1552
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3019854
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1194]p. . 4to. Imperfect: wants whole of first gathering, incl. title-page, and final leaf EEee6 (probably blank); Zz3 and Zz6 wanting, replaced by blank leaves. Old mould damage: upper inner corners of many leaves from BBbb onwards repaired, with missing text added in MS (probably 18c.) Worming in final gathering, some loss of text. Scribbled note on last page (seventeenth-century) Zonam perdidit / honour honour [practising 'h' in 16c. and 17c. forms]; other marginal scribbles throughout, some partly trimmed. Scribbled alphabet on O1r.. Provenance: Marginal note (late 16c.) on X4r: Thomas Middeltton oweth this dixonary and did lend it to Randall Stanley, per me Francis Dillon [? - final word unclear]. Marginal note on Aa8r: Randall Stanley writ this in the yere of our Lorde God 1594 by the witnes of Thomas Midelton scolemaster at [...] master of [...] at Dra[...]fild. Name in margin of FF1v: Sir Will Kingston Booke [surname uncertain - Higston??] Signature at foot of B5r: William [Marnuf??] 1632. Bookplates: (1) Belton House (earl's coronet & crests), pasted over MS inscription, probably: Library of Belton House; (2) Brownlow arms with motto: Esse quam videri [= 3rd earl Brownlow]. Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 76.. Binding: Panelled calf (early 18c. rebinding?), worn. Spine gilt, with label: 'Dictionary'. In book-shoe.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546) Thomas Cooper (1517-1594)