Epistolai diaphorōn philosophon. rhētoron. sophistōn. hex pros tois eikosiōn ta onomata en tē hexēs durēseis selidi. = Epistolae diuersorum philosophorum. oratorum. rhetorum sex & uiginti. Quorum nomina insequenti in uenies pagina.
Markos Mousouros (1470-1517)
Category
Books
Date
1499
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069221
Summary
Bibliographic description
[266]; [138] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 7083. In this copy, and in general, part 2 has been bound to appear first. Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication. Manuscript page number references added next to the individual authors listed on leaf *2r in pt. 1; manuscript contents list in Greek and Latin with page number references written in a sixteenth-century hand on pt. 2 title page. Manuscript notes in Greek on blank leaf [sigma]6r. Manuscript marginal notes in a sixteenth-century hand on leaves [omicron]3r-5r in pt.1 and on leaf [alpha]2v in pt. 2. Manuscript pagination and separate numbering of each letter. Extensive water-staining throughout. Bound-in at end is a printed leaf containing Italian verse, part of Canto Nono from an unidentified sixteenth-century[?] edition of Lodovico Ariosto's 'Orlando furioso'. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Eighteenth-century manuscript former shelfmarks on front pastedown: "T.2.4" (crossed-out) and "Q.1.15" [both appear to be in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys]. Manuscript ownership inscription on pt. 2 title page, scribbled over in ink and illegible. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; sewn on five supports; gilt roll pattern on board edges; rebacked in sprinkled calf; spine with blind fillets and gilt title; red sprinkled bookblock edges. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
Markos Mousouros (1470-1517), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer