Historia del Testamento Vecchio dipinta in Roma nel Vaticano da Raffaelle di Vrbino et intagliata in rame da Sisto Badalocchi et Giovan[n]i Lanfanchi Parmigiani al sig. Annibale Carracci.
Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520)
Category
Books
Date
1607
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3038011
Summary
Bibliographic description
54 leaves : chiefly ill. ; obl. 4to. Running number: 2646. Some leaves repaired at foot. Leaf 49 mis-bound following leaf 38. Bound with 46 blank leaves at the rear. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 54. plates. NB. plate 49. is misplaced, & put after 38" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's code at foot of leaf: "ε'." [i.e. epsilon' = Greek number 5]. Manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Raphael" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry for anonymous works by John Mitchell]. Nineteenth-century[?] former shelfmark in pencil on fly-leaf facing title page: "17.D.19", altered to read "27.D.19". $zBinding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled sheepskin; blind roll pattern along board edges. Remnants of pair of green cloth ties on boards. Gold-tooled spine. Red and blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520) Sisto Badalocchio (Parma 1585 - 1647) Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560 - Rome 1609) Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)