Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices Syriacos, Arabicos, Persicos, Turcicos, Hebraicos, Samaritanos, Armenicos, Aethiopicos, Graecos, Aegyptiacos, Ibericos, & Malabaricos, jussu et munificentia Clementis XI. pontificis maximi, ex Oriente conquisitos, comparatos, avectos, & Bibliothecae Vaticanae addictos Recensuit, digessit, & genuina scripta à spuriis secrevit, addita singulorum auctorum vita, Joseph Simonius Assemanus Syrus Maronita sacrae theologiae doctor, atque in eadem Bibliotheca Vaticana linguarum Syriacae & Arabicae scriptor. ...
Assemani, Giuseppe Simone
Category
Books
Date
1719 - 1728
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031654
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. in 4 ; fol. Running number: 7818. Large paper. Imperfect: wanting vol. 3. Provenance: manuscript ownership[?] inscription on half-titles, all erased. Binding: eighteenth-century full parchment over boards (vol. 2 front cover discoloured); sewn on four sewing supports; six raised bands; gilt title and vol. number stamped directly onto spines; red mottled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, author Pietro Bianchi (Rome 1694 – Rome 1740) , artist Vincenzo Franceschini (1680-1744), engraver (printmaker) Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752), engraver (printmaker) Pier Leone Ghezzi (Rome 1674 - Rome 1755), artist