Marmora Felsinea innumeris non solum inscriptionibus exteris hucusque ineditis sed etiam quamplurimis doctissimorum virorum expositionibus roborata & aucta. Illustrissimo ac amplissimo Bononiae senatui dicata a Co: Carolo Caesare Malvasia v. i. ac sac pag. doct. collegiato: in patrio Archigymnasio horis vespertinis legum interpreti primario ac emerito: nec non cathedralis ecclesiae Bononiensis canonico.
Carlo Ceasare Malvasia, Count Carlo Malvasia (1616-1693)
Category
Books
Date
1690
Materials
Place of origin
Bologna
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031638
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 664 p. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 6112. 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)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ι½." [i.e. iota½ = Greek number[?] 10½]. Manuscript bookseller's[?] code on front pastedown: "y/e". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto five sewing supports; two concentric frames on covers, outer border of double blind fillets, the inner frame of double and single blind fillets with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; blind fillets and roll pattern on spine; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled edges on textblock.
Makers and roles
Carlo Ceasare Malvasia, Count Carlo Malvasia (1616-1693), author Francesco Maria Fancia (1657-1735), engraver (printmaker)