Roma subterranea novissima in qua post Antonium Bosium Antesignanum, Jo: Severanum Congreg. Oratorii presbyterum, et celebres alios scriptores antiqua Christianorum et praecipue martyrum coemeteria, tituli, monimenta, epitaphia, inscriptiones, ac nobiliora sanctorum sepulchra sex libris distincta illustrantur et quamplurimae res ecclesiasticae iconibus graphice describuntur, ac multiplici tum sacra, tum profana eruditione declarantur. Opera et studio Pauli Aringhi Romani Congreg. ejusdem presbyteri cum duplici indice, capitum & rerum locupletissimo. Tomus primus[-secundus].
Paolo Aringhi (1600-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1659
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031780
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1 : ill., map ; fol. Running number: 6298. Provenance: small book number label on front pastedown: 'N' [printed in red] / "49" [in manuscript black ink]. These inventory or shelfmark labels are characteristic of books from the library of Louis-Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698). Count Loménie de Brienne's library was sold in London in 1724, where Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) undoubtedly purchased it. Manuscript price[?] on rear pastedown: "35.tt". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf (rubbed, piece missing from upper cover); sewn onto six twisted cords laced through the boards; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with fillet, roll and stamp decoration; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges. Thick piece of vellum manuscript waste lines the spine, originally underneath the pastedowns but now free at the front; manuscript text (legal document?) visible underneath the pastedowns on the vellum, including on the free part at the front partial instructions to binder: "Roma subterranean / dos plein & le ... folio 88 ..." [the rest cut off or obscured].
Makers and roles
Paolo Aringhi (1600-1676), author