Epistole familiares Francisci Philelfi.
Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481)
Category
Books
Date
1499 - 1500
Materials
Place of origin
Deventer
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069209
Summary
Bibliographic description
[242] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6998. Leaf p4 correctly signed; leaf F3 incorrectly signed G3. Errors in signatures corrected in manuscript. Leaves e3, 4 misbound in wrong order e4, 3. Initials and capital strokes provided in red throughout; rubrication of the printed paragraph marks up to leaf d1r. Title page a1r bears a few faint and illegible lines of printed[?] text vertically on the page and a faint blue initial letter added by hand, presumably a ghostly impression from a facing page at some early point in the book's history. Early sixteenth-century manuscript inscription at head of leaf a2r has been thoroughly washed-out, first word possibly "liber". Manuscript interlinear and marginal notes on leaves a5v-a6v in a sixteenth-century hand; a few marginal notes in a later sixteenth-century hand, e.g. leaves n4r, p7r, q2r; manicule and underlining of text on leaf s7r. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial and note on front fly-leaf: "M." and "Folia e.III. & e.IIII. perturbantur" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Eighteenth or nineteenth-century inscriptions on verso of front free endpaper: "Epist: 86" (in pencil, crossed-through in ink) and "604" (in ink). Manuscript capital letter "N" written in pencil on recto of rear free endpaper. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; single gilt fillet border; double gilt fillet along board edges; gold-tooled spine with stamp, fillet and roll decoration; gilt title on brown leather spine label 'Phileleii Epistolae Familiares'; burnished red painted bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), author Richard Paffraet, printer