Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs hapanta. Nouum Testamentum. Ex Bibliotheca Regia.
Robert Estienne (1503-1559)
Category
Books
Date
1549
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3038021
Summary
Bibliographic description
528; 361, [7] p. ; 16mo. Running number: 2210. Second leaf signed "b.ij". Leaf a1 loose. Wanting final two blank leaves zz7-8. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark and book/inventory number on inside front board: "O.1.35" and "(311)". Multiple inscriptions on title page, including: "Joannes Walsallus 1563" and "Johan[n]es Walsallus: pretium - 3s-2d" [i.e. John Walsall (d. 1618). Christ Church, Oxford, 1563. B.A. 1566, M.A. 1568, D.D. 1584. Rector of Corton Dinhan, Somerset, 1567-1574. Canon of Chichester, 1569-1571 and one of the six Preachers at the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. Rector of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, 1569-1571, and of Eastling, Kent, 1574-1617. Vicar of Appledore, Kent, 1590-1609 -- cf. Alumni Oxonienses. John Walsall was also home tutor (probably from 1566 to 1569) to Anthony Bacon (1558-1601) and Francis Bacon (1561-1626)]. Manuscript inscriptions on title page verso, two in Greek and "Samuelis Walsalliiss ex dono [s]plendissi & charissimi patris. preti[u]m 3s / Finit patris calendissi & charissi patris 1563: finit men[se] 1586 Junij 11" [i.e. Samuel Walsall (1575-1626), son of John. Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, 1618-26. Vicar of Alkham, Kent, 1608-1611. Vicar of Appledore, 1609-1611. Rector of St Mary Abchurch, London, 1611-1613. Rector of Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, 1613-1626 -- cf. Alumni Cantabrigienses]. Manuscript inscriptions on zz6v, some in Greek and Latin, including: "William Strong". Manuscript annotations and marginal notes in Greek and Latin in sixteenth-century hand throughout. Binding: sixteenth-century full calf; double blind fillet and blind roll pattern border; blind foliate centrepiece stamp. Recessed cords. Repeated blind roll pattern on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Robert Estienne (1503-1559) Claude Garamond (France 1490 -1561)