Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaq[ue] ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in vnum collectae, atque Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium vtilitatem Latino sermone ab Antonio Verderio, Domino Vallispriuatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus accesserunt duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.
Vincenzo Cartari (c.1531 - 1590)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032932
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 359, [57] p. : ill., port. ; 4to. Running number: 5933. 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 manuscript code at foot of leaf: "β'." [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Manuscript inscription on rear fly-leaf: "Bought at ye Brasen Serpent and I warrant it perfect & good: George Lathum" [i.e. George Latham (d. 1658), bookseller in London 1620-1658, first at the Brazen Serpent in St. Paul's Churchyard and later at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Churchyard]. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; double blind fillet border; gilt lozenge chain roll pattern along board edges; five raised bands; blind fillets and gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges. Fragment of fifteenth or sixteenth-century printed waste lines the spine and underneath pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Vincenzo Cartari (c.1531 - 1590) Antoine Du Verdier (1544-1600) Bolognino Zaltieri (fl.1555-1576), artist