Silii Italici Punicorum Liber primus Incipit.
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c.28-c.103 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1471
Materials
Measurements
334 x 235 x 45 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069894
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: handmade laid paperInk/Pigment: black printing ink with many marginal annotations in iron gall inkType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supportsDate of Binding: ca 1700Binder's Name: English - Geometrical Compartment Binder? End Leaves: Sewn single fold of Dutch marbled paper with three leaves of plain white laid paper with outside hooks around it. Stubs and outer marbled leaf as pastedowns. Marbled pastedown is pieced down foredgeStructure: English Edges: All edges giltSpine Lining: Moderate round, angled joint, no evidence of linings End Bands: Worked L-R in blue and beige silk over a rolled paper coreBookmark: NoneBoards: 4mm millboards, all slips laced Covering: High quality tanned pink-red goatskin Tooling Spine: gold-tooled sentre and croner toolds in each panel, rolls acorss jhead and tail, black (?) tanned goat title label in panel 2Tooling Sides: 2 fillet and dotted roll border with decorated roll along joint and fleurons inside each corner. Gilt roll on board edge Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: This looks like a binding for the Earl of Pembroke, and bears th hallmarks of a Geometrical Compartment Binder binding.
Bibliographic description
[194] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6921. Contains Silius, Punica only, i.e. first [162] leaves (sigs. a-p10 q8 r6) only; without Calpurnius/Nemesianus and Hesiod (sigs. A-B8; aa8 bb6). Imperfect: wanting blank leaves [a1] and [r6]. Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of leaf [a2] recto: "Dei figli et eredi di m[esse]r Mario Maffei" [i.e. Mario Maffei (1463-1537), from Volterra, Tuscany; Bishop of Aquino (1516-25) and of Cavaillon (1525-37)]. Bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), with his instructions to the binder regarding spine lettering in pencil on leaf [a2] recto: "SIL: ITAL: / MAXIM: / ROMAE / 1471". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Extensive manuscript marginal and interlineal annotations and corrections throughout in a fifteenth or early sixteenth-century humanist cursive hand in brown ink; corrections to the text by erasure and in black ink. Binding: early eighteenth-century gold-tooled dull red morocco, characteristic of books bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733); sewn on six supports; narrow gilt border of a double fillet and two dotted roll patterns with additional dentelle roll pattern along spine-edge and fleuron corner-piece stamps; gilt dentelle roll pattern on board edges; spine heavily gilt in seven compartments with stamp, roll and fillet decoration and gilt title (as per written instructions on leaf [a2]r) on brown goatskin label; gilt edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled paper pastedowns and conjoint free endpapers, plain paper flyleaves.
Makers and roles
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c.28-c.103 AD), author Hesiod (c.8th century BC), author Titus Calpurnius Siculus, author Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (fl.283 AD), author Giovanni Andrea Bussi (1417-1475), editor Valle, Niccolò della, translator Sweynheim, Konrad, printer Pannartz, Arnold, printer