Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis De arte gymnastica libri sex: In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur. Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, & figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata.
Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3040365
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 387, [41] p., [6] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 4to. Running number: 6230. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled vellum; sewn onto five raised bands; covers have a blind-tooled framework of an outer border of double fillets mitred at the corners to an inner panel of single fillets and a blind decorative centerpiece stamp; spine cracked along the hinges; manuscript title on spine. Blue sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) , author Cristoforo Coriolano (1530/60 - Venice c.1604), wood engraver Andreas Frisius (d.1675), editor Romeyn de Hooghe (Amsterdam 1645 -1708), artist and engraver Pirro Ligorio (1513-1583), artist Andreas Frisius (d.1675), publisher