Ioannis Casae Latina monimenta. Quorum partium versibus, partim soluta oratione scripta sunt.
Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556) Archbishop of Benevento
Category
Books
Date
1567
Materials
Place of origin
Florence
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032461
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 210, [6] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7208. Provenance: manuscript initial on first front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on first front pastedown: "C. & P. /" [i.e. the "collated and perfect" mark of the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)]. Manuscript number on first front fly-leaf: "N. 101". Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf, partially scribbled over in ink: "franc. ... [illegible] 10 ... [illegible]". Binding:seventeenth-century full limp vellum; sewn onto three tawed-leather cords; fore-edges slightly folded-over; manuscript title "Jo. Casa Opera" written in bold black ink on spine, written over previous very faint text. Strips of printed waste (fifteenth or early sixteenth-century) line the spine.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556) Archbishop of Benevento , author Pietro Vettori (1499-1585), editor