Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua a Claudio Menetreio Ceimeliothecae Barberinae praefecto exposita. Cui accessere Lucae Holstenij Epistola ad Franciscum Cardinalem Barberinum De fulcris, seu veribus Dianae Ephesiae simulacro appositis, Io. Petri Bellorij notae in numismata tùm Ephesia, tùm aliarum vrbium apibus insignita.
Claude Menestrier (d. 1639)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3043742
Summary
Bibliographic description
8, 11-12, 15-48, 53-56; 8, [4], 23-37, [1], 41-44, 47-50 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Extensive water-staining and cockling throughout. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Former Felbrigg shelfmarks in pencil: Q7 and P7 (both crossed-out). Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Claude Menestrier (d. 1639), author Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679) Menestrier, Claude-François Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696) Lucas Holstenius (1596-1661)