Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, . quæ præter ordinem, motum, et operationem, ... conscriptum per Conradum Lycosthenem rubeaquensem.
Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561)
Category
Books
Date
1557
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065629
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],670,[2]p. . ill.. (woodcuts) . fol.. Old pressmark I.[?] 6. Imperfect: last leaf mutilated. Some damp damage. Section of MS. used as bookmark and inserted at p. 563: 'Sir W/ in accep/ for this', presumably referring to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan. Bookmark inserted at p. 89. The following pages are misnumbered: page 14 reads 8; 30 reads 22;35 reads 31; 77 reads 73.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Full calf; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled on spine; armorial medallion centrepiece on boards; title gilt lettered direct onto spine: Lycosth Prodigia Ostentata.
Makers and roles
Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561)