Gulielmi Canteri Vltraiectini Nouarum lectionum libri septem: in quibus, praeter uariorum autorum, tam Graecorum quàm Latinorum, explicationes & emendationes: Athenaei, Agellij, & aliorum fragmenta quaedam in lucem proferuntur. Accessit rerum & uerborum in his memorabilium, item scriptorum, quorum loci explicantur, emendantur uel augentur, geminus index.
Willem Canter (1542 - 1575)
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032804
Summary
Bibliographic description
371, [13] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5667. 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)]. Manuscript price[?] scribbled over in ink on front fly-leaf. Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Fris tois Bapt. a glano" [probably Jean-Baptiste de Glen (ca. 1552-1613), of the Order of Saint Augustine in Liège and Doctor of Theology] and "Bibliothecae Ctus Sti Augustini pe[r] Leod:" [i.e. from the library of the Order of Saint Augustine in Liège (Leodii)]. Binding: sixteenth-century full calf; sewn on five double supports; gilt single fillet border; small gilt floral centrepiece stamp; blind fillets along five raised bands on spine, with hatched pattern of blind fillets at head and tail, and small gilt fleuron stamps in each panel; head of spine partially missing. Manuscript waste on vellum visible at front and rear hinges.
Makers and roles
Willem Canter (1542 - 1575), author