Symbolica Ægyptiorum sapientia, Authore P. Nicolao Caussino è Societate Iesu. Olim ab eo scripta, nunc post varias editiones, denuo edita.
Nicolas Caussin (1583-1651)
Category
Books
Date
1647
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032719
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 641, [43] p. ; 4to. Running number: 6065. Head of title page cut out, removing ownership inscription. Provenance: manuscript inscription in a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand on front fly-leaf: "Joseph Taylor his booke". Manuscript prices on title page: "pret. 6s", "[illegible] 6s" and "[symbol for Pisces] tt. 4". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto four tawed leather sewing supports; blind thin thick thin fillet border; single gilt fillet along board edges; four raised bands; blind fillet decoration on spine; title label missing from spine. Red stained edges.
Makers and roles
Nicolas Caussin (1583-1651), author Saint Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215), author Diodorus Siculus (ac. c. 30 BC - c. 60 BC), author Saint Epiphanius (c.310-403 AD), Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, author Horapollo (5th century), author Caelius Firmianus Symphosius (fl.4th/5th century AD), author