P. Cornelii Tactiti equitis Ro. Ab excessu Augusti annalium libri sedecim.
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115)
Category
Books
Date
1559
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3030659
Summary
Bibliographic description
875 [i.e. 925], [35] p. ; 16mo. Running number: 5522. Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on inside front board: "F.6.15". Manuscript book or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(356)". Manuscript notes at head of title page in miniscule hand, partially cropped by binder. Manuscript marginal annotations, symbols and underscoring of text throughout. Manuscript inscription at end of text on final p. [35]: "Sum Gifanii" [presumably someone with the surname Giffen; possibly Hubert van Giffen (ca. 1533-1604), Dutch jurist and philologist who edited a number of classical texts]. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; yapp fore-edges; manuscript title on spine; spine cracked, partially missing. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115) Emilio Ferretti (1489-1552), editor