Hecatommithi, ouero Cento nouelle / di M. Giouanbattista Giraldi Cinthio Nobile Ferrarese: nelle quali, oltre le diletteuoli materie, si conoscono moralità vtilissime a gli huomini per il ben viuere; …
Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi (1504-1573)
Category
Books
Date
1574
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3030450
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1 ; 4to. Pencil “92” on bookplate. Provenance: Previous owner’s shelfmarks: F2.18 [dark brown ink, on bookplate]; CC.18 [dark brown ink, above bookplate and on flyleaf, both crossed through in brown ink]. Manuscript inscription on flyleaf: In Posterum [Sheldon motto? – same colour ink crosses through CC.18]. Anonymous armorial bookplate [Sheldon]. Manuscript inscription on titlepage in a seventeenth-century hand: Radulphus de Beoly Sheldon. Anonymous gilt armorial centrepiece stamp on covers [Sheldon]. Binding: Seventeenth-century? sprinkled calf over boards on four alum-tawed thongs, double blind fillet and blind roll on spine, double blind fillet and floral cornerpieces on covers, gilt armorial centrepiece on covers, blind roll on board edges, red, blue and yellow marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi (1504-1573), author