C. Plinii Secundi Novocomensis De viris illustribus liber, qui vulgo Cornelio Nepoti ascribitur. Suetonii Tranquilli De claris grammaticis & rhetoribus liber. Iulii Obsequentis prodigiorum liber imperfectus.
possibly Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1541
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3034312.2
Summary
Item 2 in volume.
Bibliographic description
89, [11] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7024. Bound with: "C. Plinii Secundi Nouocomensis, Epistolarum libri X" (Paris: Robert Estienne, 1529). Ruled in red throughout. Provenance: sixteenth-century manuscript inscription on 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 title page: "Nicolaus: verent[?] rothomagaeus" [i.e. Nicolaus something of Rouen] and "Stephanus de haulteryue 1579" [presumably one Etienne d'Haulterive (fl. 1579)]. Sixteenth-century manuscript inscriptions on verso of leaf f10: "Stephanus de haulteryue 1579" and "Haulteryue [flourish]" (in different hands?). 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
possibly Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD), author Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author possibly Cornelius Nepos (99-24 BC), author Julius Obsequens (4th century) , author possibly Sextus Aurelius Victor (c.320 - c.390), author Robert Estienne (1503-1559), printer