Polyori [sic] Vergilii urbinatis De rerum inventoribus libri octo; in quibus omnium scientiarum, omniumq[ue] ferè rerum principium quoddam quàm brevissimè continetur.
Polydore Vergil (1470-1555).
Category
Books
Date
1671
Materials
Place of origin
Nijmegen
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032877
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 682, [30]; [2], 63, [9] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7147. Top corner of first front fly-leaf cut out. Provenance: manuscript initial on second front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript codes on verso of additional engraved title page and on verso of rear fly-leaf. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; sewn onto four cords; covers have double blind fillet border with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; gilt roll pattern along board edges; spine cracked, partially missing.
Makers and roles
Polydore Vergil (1470-1555)., author Alessandro Sardi (1520-1588) , author Romeyn de Hooghe (Amsterdam 1645 -1708), engraver (printmaker)