Ludovici Caelii Rhodigini Lectionum antiquarum libri triginta, recogniti ab auctore, atque ita locupletati, ut tertiâ plus parte auctiores sint redditi: ob omnifariam abstrusarum et reconditiorum tàm rerum quàm vocum explicationem (quas vix unius hominis aetas, libris perpetuò insudans, obseruaret) meritò cornucopiae seu thesaurus utriusque linguae appellandi postrema editio, ab innumeris non solùm mendis, sed etiam luxationibus, hiatibus & defectibus, quibus nuperae editiones deturpatae erant, magná curâ, laboreque Herculeo liberata & emendata, pristinoque nitori restituta.
Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (1469-1525)
Category
Books
Date
1661
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3021943
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16] p., 1720 columns, [130] p. ; fol. Running number: 6129. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark and inventory[?] number in eighteenth-century hand on front pastedown: "H.3.6" and "120" (circled). Binding: seventeenth-century full gold-tooled vellum over boards; sewn onto six sewing supports; gilt centrepiece stamp of coat of arms of Amsterdam within lozenge-shaped ornament on both covers; double gilt fillet border and inner concentric panel of two double gilt fillets, the panel with gilt cornerpiece stamps of the arms of Amsterdam; two pairs of green silk ribbon ties on the foredge of the boards; spine divided into seven panels by six raised bands, panel at head of spine with manuscript title, all panels with gilt rose stamp of seven foils, barbed; blind hatching and gilt fillets at head and tail of spine, gilt fillets along raised bands. Brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (1469-1525) , author