Anthologia diaphorōn epigrammatōn archaiois syntetheimenōn sophois epi diaphorois hypothesesin, eis hepta tmēmata diērēmenē. = Florilegium diuersorum epigrammatum in septem libros distinctum, diligenti castigatione emendatum. Cui nonnulla nuper inuenta in fine adiecta sunt, vnà cum indice tam rerum, quàm auctorum copiosissimo.
Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515)
Category
Books
Date
1550 - 1551
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031464
Summary
Bibliographic description
288, [12] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7060. Water-staining throughout. Provenance: seventeenth-century[?] manuscript inscription at head of title page: "Æasaiscau. 30s.". Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription in black ink on third front fly-leaf verso (facing title page): "V. 1718 3m 'ek tōn Ianos Pontiou" [the last four words transliterated from the Greek "έκ των Ιανου Ποντιου", i.e. purchase code and ownership inscription written by John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer; Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 1374 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of first front fly-leaf recto: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Binding: contemporary Venetian binding ca. 1551 by the Fugger Binder / Venetian Apple Binder; sixteenth-century full brown goatskin over thin wooden boards, tooled in gold and blind; sewn on three supports; panel design on covers, outer panel of single gilt fillet within blind fillets, inner panel of double gilt fillet within blind fillets, gilt arabesque tools on each side of inner panel and gilt fleuron at the outer corners, gilt foliate cornerpieces at the inner corners; gilt title in Greek ΑΝΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ / ΔΙΑΦ. ΕΠΙΓΡ. ('Anthologia Diaph. Epigr.') in centre of upper cover; gilt shield (empty) in centre of lower cover; two leather straps each tooled with two gilt fillets and small brass clasp on upper board (first leather strap has lost its clasp), two brass catches on lower board; spine with three raised bands and four half bands (raised bands tooled with gold fillet, half bands tooled in gold diagonal stripes), eight compartments tooled in blind with fillets and leafy curls; remnants of gilt title label on third spine compartment; gilt gauffered edges with double dotted-line border. Spine repaired in calf. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "repaired at Cambridge, 1955". In book box.
Makers and roles
Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), editor Aldi Filii, printer