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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1549
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3038025
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 143, [1], 147-732, [34] p. ; 16mo. Running number: 2214. Leaf b3 partially missing, with loss of some text. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front turn-in: "G.2.34". Manuscript book or inventory number on front fly-leaf: "(365)". Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf: "Steven van Herwerden 1638". Binding: sixteenth-century blind-rolled panelled binding over wooden boards. Outer and inner panels formed by thin thick thin fillets. Outer panel has pictorial roll containing 4 religious images (including Virgin and Child, and King David with harp and initials IB), text panels (illegible), and foliate decoration. Inner panel has three foliate stamps. Pair of brass catches on upper board, brass clasps on lower board. Wooden boards have bevelled edges. Spine has four raised bands with blind fillet on each, and blind roll/stamp decoration in panels. Worm damage on front and rear covers and boards, and on pp. 643-732, [34]. Fragments of manuscript waste at front and rear. Repaired in calf at head of spine and top corner of upper cover. Pencil note on front fly-leaf: "repaired at Cambridge 1956".
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)