Thesaurus ex thesauro Palatino selectus, sive Gemmarum et numismatum quae in electorali cimeliarchio continentur elegantiorum aere expressa, et convenienti commentario illustrata disposition authore L. Begero sereniss. Electoris Palatini antiquario et bibliothecario.
Lorenz Beger (1653-1705)
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
Heidelberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031636
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14], 421, [3] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings), port. ; fol. Running number: 6135. Top corner of front fly-leaf torn off, presumably to remove a mark of ownership. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf: "V. medailles", "930" (in pencil), and price "-15-" (in pencil, scribbled over in ink). Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; front board detached; sewn onto five sewing supports; double blind fillet border on covers; blind roll pattern along board edges; five raised bands; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lorenz Beger (1653-1705) Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655 - 1719) , artist and engraver