Sept liures des Histoires de Diodore Sicilien :. nouuellement traduyts de grec en francoys.
Jacques Amyot, (1513 - 1593), Bishop of Auxerre
Category
Books
Date
1554
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3053595
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 304 leaves ;. fol. Accession no. 8332. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Mr and Mrs James A. de Rothschild. Binding: seventeenth-century Italian painted strapwork binding of brown morocco, the sides being an inlay of red morocco with other inlays; strapwork painted black defined by a double gold fillet on either side with light grey between these lines. The large central circle on each cover bears arms: those on the upper are Medici and della Rovere, those on the lower are two pairs of crossed arrows with a bull's horns and head, unidentified. Medici ball on flat brown morocco spine; blue and yellow headbands, edges gilt and gauffered in a sixteenth-century style, endleaves of a more modern laid paper. The book is kept in a box made from a French seventeenth-century binding for Christofle Justel's Histoire genealogique de la maison d'Auvergne ( et de Turenne), Paris 1645; the covers bear the arms of Marie de la Tour (d. 1665).
Makers and roles
Jacques Amyot, (1513 - 1593), Bishop of Auxerre Diodorus Siculus (ac. c. 30 BC - c. 60 BC)