C. Plinij Secundi Nouocomensis Epistolarum libri X. Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano principi dictus. Eiusdem De viris illustrib. in re militari, & in administranda rep. Suetonij Tranquilli De claris grammaticis, & rhetoribus. Iulij Obsequentis Prodigiorum liber. Indices duo, quorum altero nomina referuntur eorum, ad quos Plinius scribit, altero quicquid memoratu dignum toto opere continetur. Latina interpretatio dictionum, & sententiarum, quibus Plinius utitur.
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1518
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3039979
Summary
Bibliographic description
[56], 525, [3] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7036. Provenance: bound for Marc Laurin (1525-1581) (or Marcus Laurinus, Mark Laurijn, Lauryn, Lauwerijn, Lauweryn), lord of Watervliet, humanist, bibliophile and numismatist, lived in Bruges. Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription in pencil on third front fly-leaf verso (facing title page): "Varennes - 1707/8 5m J Bridges" [i.e. purchase code (probably bought from the bookseller Pierre de Varennes in London) and autograph of John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer; Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 726 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of second front fly-leaf: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf: "Maertens". Binding: sixteenth-century French gold-tooled brown goatskin by the Cupid's Bow Binder in Paris, executed between 1550 and 1555 for Marc Laurin (1525-1581); sewn on five sewing supports; on both covers, border of a single gilt fillet between two blind fillets; on the upper cover, (in the centre) author and title 'C. PLINII SE / CUNDI EPI / STOLAE ETC' in a cartouche of two curved lines entwined at top and bottom ending in four hollow fleurons, and (at the bottom) Laurin's ex-libris 'M. LAURINI ET / AMICORUM' in a rectangular frame with short concave sides; on the lower cover, (in the centre) Laurin's motto 'VIRTUS / IN AR / DUO' in a diamond-shaped decorative border of four large hollow fleurons and curved lines; single gilt fillet along board edges; spine with five raised bands each with single gilt fillet, divided into six compartments each with fillet panel (blind on long sides, gilt on short sides) containing a single gilt hollow foliate tool, head and tail with additional blind fillet tooling; all edges gilt. Spine repaired at head and tail. Pencil note in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge 1955". Stored in brown buckram book box.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD), author Julius Obsequens (4th century) , author Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer