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. Editio altera auctior et ab eodem pluribus quàm antea nummis, & antiquis monumentis illustrata.
Claude Menestrier (d. 1639)
Category
Books
Date
1688
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3054373
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. Running number: 7464. Water-staining at head and foot of leaves throughout. Provenance: manuscript capital letter in pencil on front pastedown: "D". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-panelled sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; double blind fillet border and two panels of blind fillets roll patterns, with blind acorn and floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt title on brown calfskin label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Claude Menestrier (d. 1639), author Ménestrier, Claude François, author Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696), author Lucas Holstenius (1596-1661), author Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679), editor