Istoria de' poeti Greci e di que' che'n Greca lingua han poetato. Scritta da Lorenzo Crasso Barone di Pianura.
Lorenzo Crasso
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Naples
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3030657
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 536 p. ; fol. Running number: 7286. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [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: "A'." [i.e. Alpha' = Greek number 1?]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front pastedown: "4sh-". Manuscript number in black ink at foot of front pastedown: "1200.". Manuscript number/code in pencil on rear pastedown: "/10-". Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled plain calf; sewn onto four supports; six raised bands on spine; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine with stamp decoration within fillet panels and roll pattern at head and tail; gilt title on tan brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lorenzo Crasso, author