Biblia Graeca et Latina, quorum pars prima continet Mosis quinq[ue] libros, Iosuam, Iudices & Ruth.
Nikolas Brylinger (fl.1537-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3038039
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 2639. Vol. 2 bound in 2 v. Vol. 3 imperfect: water staining and damp damage throughout, leaves a1-6 and T3-6 torn with loss of some text, wanting final two blank leaves (stubs remain). Vol. 4 imperfect: water staining and damp damage throughout, leaves Nn2-6 torn with loss of some text, wanting final two blank leaves (stubs remain). Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown or fly-leaf in each vol: "F.3.12-16.". Manuscript book number or inventory number on front fly-leaf in each vol: "(164)" (vol. 1), "(421/1)" (vol. 2, pt. 1), "(272)" (vol. 2, pt. 2), "(421/2)" (vol. 3) and "(421/3)" (vol. 4). Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "Ex dono clar[issi]mi viri d[omi]ni John Locke" [i.e. the gift of the English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704)]. Manuscript inscription on vol. 3 title page: "Isaiae Vuengeri Tigurini sum: 1562" [i.e. Isaiah Wenger, of Zurich]. Binding: sixteenth-century vellum bindings; sewn on three sets of double cords. The vellum covers of vols. 1, 2 (pt. 1) and 4 are very thin and through them can be seen the fifteenth- or sixteenth-century printed sheets (containing black letter and italic texts) used to make the boards; this can also be seen in vol. 3 where the front and rear pastedowns have been torn away to reveal the layers of printed sheets beneath. The vellum covers of vols. 2 (pt. 2) and 3 are re-used manuscripts, probably fifteenth-century or earlier.
Makers and roles
Nikolas Brylinger (fl.1537-1565), printer