Des. Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades iuxta locos communes digestæ: . quibus Hadriani Iunii [...] & aliorum quorundam paroemiographorum adagia eodem ordine descripta subiuncta sunt. [...].
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1599
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065630
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],1984 columns,[208]p. . fol in sixes.. Previous shelfmark: P.8. manuscript inscription on flyleaf: "This vol. was the property of Sir John Fenwickof Wallington W.C.T." (Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan). In another hand (George Otto Trevelyan's?): 'It was printed in 1599 at Frankfurt by the same firm as printed Lord Macaulay's Plato three years later which is in the Wallington library".. Provenance: MS. inscription in seventeenth-century hand on flyleaf: "John Ffenwicke", i.e. Sir John Fenwick, 1579- or his grandson 1645-1697. manuscript inscription in seventeenth-century hand on flyleaf: "Francis Burross codex. precd. 12s.". Binding: Seventeenth-century (?) vellum; yapp edges; sewn onto four bands; "Erasmus" in manuscript on spine. Bookshoe.
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Joannes Alexander Brassicanus (1500-1539) Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Johann Jacob Grynaeus (1540-1617) Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575).