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Aethicus Ister
Category
Books
Date
1575
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031803
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 353, [135] p. ; 16mo. Running number: 4638. Quire R (pp. 257-272) folded and bound in wrong order. 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 collation note: "p. 257-272. that sheet is wrong folded". Manuscript notes and page references on front fly-leaf. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; double blind fillet border forming outer sprinkled frame; double blind fillet and blind roll pattern forming plain inner frame, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title on red goatskin label on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Aethicus Ister