Polydoro Virgilio di Vrbino, De la origine e de gl'inuentori de le leggi, costumi, scientie, arti et di tutto quello che a l'humano uso conuiensi, con la espositione dil Pater Nostro: ogni cosa di Latino in volgar tradotto da Pietro Lauro Modonese, con la tauola di cio che si contiene ne l'opera.
Polydore Vergil (1470-1555).
Category
Books
Date
1543
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3061485
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 229, [3] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7509. Provenance: manuscript inscription in sixteenth-century[?] hand on verso of third front fly-leaf (facing title page): "Polydoro Virgilio. 1558". With occasional manuscript marginal annotations and underlining of text. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; sewn on four raised bands; single blind fillet border; rebacked (twentieth-century) in sheepksin, with original gilt author and printer labels retained. Printed or manuscript waste (fifteenth-century?) visible beneath pastedowns. Pencil note on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge, 1956".
Makers and roles
Polydore Vergil (1470-1555)., author Pietro Lauro (16th century), editor Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, printer