.M. Annei Lucani Cordubensis Pharsaliae liber primus.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1477
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069902
Summary
Bibliographic description
[120] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6976. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf p6. Each page ruled in red; elaborate initials throughout supplied in red and blue with flourishes; capital strokes throughout supplied in yellow; paragraph marks on p4v-p5r supplied in alternate red and blue. Provenance: manuscript number in black ink at head of front pastedown: "41". Manuscript capital letter at head of front fly-leaf: "S". Manuscript inscriptions on third front fly-leaf verso: [1] "B."; [2] signature "J Bridges 1703" [i.e. John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer, FRS, whose library was sold in London at three sales in 1726]; [3] inventory or sale code[?] "13/7m"; and [4] "Janus Pontanus / Theocharis Gephyrius". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges sale. Lot 638 "Lucanus. Lit. maj. colorat. Lin. rubr. Edit. antiq." in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Binding: eighteenth-century full plain calf; sewn on six supports; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; title ('LVCAN PHARS') stamped in gold on brown leather spine label; bookblock edges painted red.
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD), author Martial (c.40-c.104), author Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author Vacca, author Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-after 115), author Guerinus (fl. 1477), printer