Pomponii Melae de situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, ... & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Julii Honorii oratoris excerpta cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso Aethicum auctorem præferens cum variis lectionibus ex MS. Ravennatis anonymi geographia ex MS. Leidensi suppleta. Curante Abrahamo Gronovio.
Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD)
Category
Books
Date
1722
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3024095
Summary
Bibliographic description
[82], 811, [37] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 8vo. Running number: 4669. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ι'." [i.e. iota' = Greek number 10]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title label and vol. no. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD) Aethicus Ister Petrus Ciaconius Abraham Gronovius (1695-1775) Ermolao Barbaro (1454 - 1493) Patriarch of Aquileia Julius Honorius Isaac Vossius (1618-1689)