Lucii Ioannis Scoppae Collectanea in diuersos autores: cum nonnullis alijs, tam ab antiquis q[uam] recentioribus nondum intellectis.
Lucio Giovanni Scoppa (d. ca. 1543)
Category
Books
Date
1521
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3025580
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 53, [1] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 7000. Top corner of front fly-leaf torn off, removing a price[?] written in red crayon. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "Bibliothecae Colbertinae" [i.e. the library of the bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1619-1683), chief minister to Louis XIV; possibly written by Colbert's librarian Étienne Baluze (1630-1718). Colbert’s library was dispersed at a sale in Paris, 24 May-21 October 1728]. Manuscript number (sale number?) next to ownership inscription on title page: "11434". Manuscript price (written in ink over pencil) on title page: "3-0". Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription in ink on verso of front free endpaper: "V - Philol."; beneath which is written in pencil: "521". Remnants of price[?] written in red crayon on front fly-leaf; price[?] written in pencil on recto of front fly-leaf, scribbled over in ink. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; double and single blind fillet border; single gilt fillet along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with brown leather title label 'Scop Coll'; burnished red bookblock edges; placard pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Lucio Giovanni Scoppa (d. ca. 1543), author Simon de Colines (1480?-1546), printer