C. Plinii Secundi Nouocomensis, Epistolarum libri X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano principi dictus. Eiusdem de viris illustrib. in re militari, & in administranda rep. Suetonii Tra[n]quilli De claris gra[m]maticis & rhetoribu[us]. Quibus adiectus est index copiosissimus. Iulii Obsequentis Prodigiorum liber. Latina interpretatio dictionum & sententiarum Graecarum, quibus Plinius vtitur.
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1529
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3034312.1
Summary
Item 1 in volume.
Bibliographic description
2 pts. in 1 v. ([12], 224; 54, [6] leaves) ; 8vo. Running number: 7024. Imperfect: pt. 1 only. Bound with pt. 2 of the 1541 edition: "C. Plinii Secundi Novocomensis de viris illustribus liber, qui vulgo Cornelio Nepoti ascribitur …" (Paris: Robert Estienne, 1541). Ruled in red throughout. With underlining of text and the occasional manuscript marginal annotation in a sixteenth-century hand. Provenance: sixteenth-century manuscript inscription in verse on second front fly-leaf: "Vatibus aeternis coelo descendit ab alto / Ad noua diuinus facta canenda furor / Intonat aethera ceu missum fulmen ab arce, / Concita fulgurei lingua disserta viri. [signed] Haulteryue 1594". Sixteenth-century manuscript inscriptions on fourth front fly-leaf: "Stephanus Haulteryue 1579" and "Haulteryiue [flourish]" (in different hands?) [presumably one Etienne d'Haulterive (fl. 1579) and one other unnamed member of the same family]. Sixteenth-century manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Haulteryue", "Nicolaus verene[?] Rothomageus" [i.e. Nicolaus something of Rouen], and "Stephanus de Haulteryue 1579". 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)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "α'." [alpha' = Greek number 1]. Manuscript price written in black ink on verso of first front fly-leaf: "4lt" [4 livres tournois], scribbled over in ink. Binding: sixteenth-century full dark brown calf (very worn); sewn on five tawed leather supports laced through pasteboards; covers with blind thin-thick-thin fillet border and panel, the panel with blind fleuron cornerpieces, and a centrepiece design of two back to back fleurons (same tool as cornerpieces); spine divided by five raised bands into six compartments, with blind fillets at head and tail but otherwise plain; endbands missing; all edges gilt; strip of medieval vellum manuscript waste containing Latin text lines the spine.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD), author Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author Julius Obsequens (4th century) , author Robert Estienne (1503-1559), printer