Francisci Guicciardini patricii Florentini Historiarum sui temporis libri viginti, . ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primùm & conuersi, & editi, Caelio Secundo curione interprete. Ad Carolum nonum Galliae regem potentissimum & Christianissimum. Habes hamaniss. Lector historiae scriptorem, omnibus historicis nuumeris absolutum, nulli veterum postponendum, multis seu potius omnibus nouis fide, diligentia, prudentia, ceterisq[ue] virtutibus anteponendum. nec tamen quod alij quidam eorundem temporu[m] historiam scripserint, hunc superuacaneum putes. nam praeter eas quas dixi virtutes historiae quibus ceteris praestat, innumera habet in rerum gestarum memoria, in consilijs explicandis, in hominum naturis notandis, in personis describendis, in concionibus orationibusq[ue] referendis, quae in alijs desiderantur. Lege modò & plura ipse reperies, qum̀ nos polliceri possimus.
Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Castle Ward, County Down
NT 3050136
Summary
Bibliographic description
[64],737,[3];212[i.e.222]p. . fol... Provenance: manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf: "bought from Mr. Alexr. Adair mercht. in Belfast". manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Jar Brett C.A.", and " Ex libris ...[cipher?] Adair". manuscript marginal annotations (16th century hand) throughout.. Binding: Late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century calf binding; double blind fillet border and five blind centrepiece stamps on boards; gilt title panel on spine. manuscript fore-edge title: "Gucciardini". Manuscript waste on vellum at front and back: 15th century, Latin, in red and black. Front waste contains one historiated illuminated initial and one vine stem.
Makers and roles
Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) Bartolommeo Fazio Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) Caelius Secundus