Hoc uolumine continentur poëtae tres egregij nunc primum in lucem editi, Gratij, q[ui] Augusto principe floruit, De uenatione lib. I. P. Ouidij Nasonis Halieuticôn liber acephalus. M. Aurelij Olympij Nemesiani Cynegeticôn lib. I. Eiusdem carmen bucolicum. T. Calphurnij Siculi Bucolica. Adriani Cardinalis uenatio.
Grattius Faliscus
Category
Books
Date
1534
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3040573
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 47 [i.e. 46] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7040. Water-staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of title page: "I. Quesnel" [possibly Jacques Quensel (1590-1661), publisher in Paris]. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on verso of third front fly-leaf (facing title page): "Poetae tres" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry for works without a main author, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Binding: eighteenth-century full plain vellum over pasteboards; sewn on four supports; title 'GRAT. DE VENA.' stamped in black ink on spine; all edges gilt.
Makers and roles
Grattius Faliscus, author possibly Ovid (43 BC - 17 or 18 AD), author Titus Calpurnius Siculus, author Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (fl.283 AD), author Adriano Castellesi (b. ca. 1461), author Georg von Logau (1495?-1553), editor Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), printer Haeredes Aldi Manutii Romani et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer