Ausonii Paeonii Burdegalensis medici poetae augustorum praeceptoris viriq[ue] co[n]sularis: opera dilige[n]ter castigata & in pulcherrimum ordine[m] e pristina co[n]fusione restituta.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c.310-c.395)
Category
Books
Date
1515
Materials
Place of origin
Leipzig
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031633
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], cxiij [i.e. 119] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6989. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf V6. With manuscript marginal annotations and notes in a sixteenth-century hand and underlining of text throughout, all washed-out. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on five raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine and title label 'Ausoni Poemata'; red sprinkled textblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c.310-c.395) , author Richard Croke (1489?-1558), editor Valentin Schumann (d. 1542), printer