Delle lettere di principi, la quali o si scriuono da principi, o a principi, o ragionano di principi. Libro primo[-terzo]. Di nuouo ricorrette, et secondo l'ordine de' tempi accommodate.
Girolamo Riscelli (d.c.1565)
Category
Books
Date
1581
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3061483
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 4to. Running number: 7411. Water and mould staining in each vol., cockled leaves throughout. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 3. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Armorial bookplate of Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini (1650-1728), Cardinal and Bishop of Imola, in each vol., colour-stamped in red and yellow: arms per bend argent and gules, surrounded by a bordure sable charged with 12 bezants, in chief three fleur-de-lys of Anjou; red cardinal's hat with three rows of tassels; beneath all the initials 'U.J. C.G.' [i.e. Ulysses Josephus Cardinalis Gozzadinus]. Binding: seventeenth-century limp vellum; holes in fore-edge of covers for two pairs of ties (missing); manuscript title (faded) on spines; manuscript title on tail of textblock fore-edge: "Lett. de Prenc. par. pa[-3a].".
Makers and roles
Girolamo Riscelli (d.c.1565) , compiler Francesco Ziletti (d.1587?), printer