Veterum illustrium philosophorum poetarum rhetorum et oratorum imagines ex vetustis nummis, gemmis, hermis, marmoribus, alijsque antiquis monumentis desumptae. A Io: Petro Bellorio, Christinae reginae augustae bibliothecario, & antiquario expositionibus illustratae.
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696)
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031714
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 pts. in 1 v. ([10], 20; [2], 16; [2], 15, [1] p., [1], 92 leaves of plates) : ill. (etchings) ; fol. Running number: 7292. Top corner of front fly-leaf torn off. Water-staining at head of some leaves. Cancel slips with correct page numbers pasted over presumably incorrect numbers on p. 18 and 19 in pt. 1. Plates 69-70 bound before plate 65 in pt. 2. Provenance: manuscript initial and inscription on front fly-leaf: "M." and "In Parte 2de. Tabb. 69, 70 Poetarum, praeponuntur Tabb. 65-68" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript numbers on front fly-leaf: "No 105" (crossed-out), one scribbled over in ink, and "1-101". Manuscript price in pencil at head of front pastedown (smudged out but still legible): "1-0-0". Manuscript inscription in pencil on rear fly-leaf: "Lot 105". Manuscript code in black ink on rear pastedown: "Aa". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn onto five supports; spine cracked across middle, head partially missing; manuscript title at head of spine. Blue and red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696), author Théodore Galle (1571-1633), artist Giacinto Calandrucci (Palermo 1646 -Palermo 1707) , artist Blondeau, Jacques, engraver (printmaker)