D. Iunii Iuuenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyræ / cum annotationibus Thomæ Farnabii.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140)
Category
Books
Date
1662
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3031443
Summary
Bibliographic description
189, [3] p. ; 12mo. Crude yellow colouring to titlepages and first large initials on pp. [3], [151]. Pencil notes on pp. 8-9, 11, 14-17, 48, 58-62, 166-7. Provenance: manuscript inscription on back first spine support: [] Edw: Madox 1673. “EM” on back board in the same hand. Manuscript inscription on back second spine support in a late seventeenth-century hand: Me sene Thomas [? Torn away]. Manuscript inscription on (1) spine support and (2) titlepage verso: (1) 1691 September Jeffrey Gilbert. 1691; (2) Jeff: Gilbert: 1710: [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. 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 dark brown calf over boards, double blind fillet on spine and covers, blind roll on board edges, remains of red sprinkled edges. Spine label missing. Front cover loose.
Makers and roles
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140) Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) (34 - 62) Thomas Farnaby (1575-1647), editor