Hercules ethnicorum ex variis antiquitatum reliquiis delineatus additis in fine modernis quibusdam ejusdem argumenti picturis. Proponente Laurentio Begero augustissimi Regis Borussiae &c. &c. &c. Consiliario ab antiquitatibus et bibliotheca.
Lorenz Beger (1653-1705)
Category
Books
Date
1705
Materials
Place of origin
Berlin
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031413
Summary
Bibliographic description
38 leaves of plates : all ill. ; fol. Running number: 7298. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 38. Tabb." [i.e. catalogue code and contents note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "θ½" [i.e. theta½ = Greek number 9½]. Manuscript numbers in pencil at foot of front pastedown: "39" (crossed-out) and "903". Manuscript number (price?) at foot of front fly-leaf: "5. gl.". Binding: eighteenth-century full plain vellum over pasteboards; sewn onto five supports; spine missing. Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lorenz Beger (1653-1705), compiler Taucher, Wolf Christof, engraver (printmaker)