M. Annæi Lucani Pharsalia, siue, De bello civili Cæsaris et Pompeij lib. X. / Cum notis Hugonis Grotii et annotationibus Thomæ Farnabii.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029429
Summary
Bibliographic description
377, [7] p. : ill. ; 12mo. Clothes items shopping list in a seventeenth-century hand on back flyleaf verso. Seventeenth-century manuscript “49” on fore-edge. Underlining throughout; manuscript note on p. 20. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum over boards on three alum-tawed thongs, blue sprinkled edges. Vellum goes partly over fore-edge. Manuscript spine title: Lucani Pharsalla [older one above, but faint].
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD) Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), commentator Thomas Farnaby (1575-1647), commentator