Pomponij Mell[a]e Cosmographi de situ orbis liber primus. Prooemium.
Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD)
Category
Books
Date
1478
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069905
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6994. A few marginal notes and textual corrections in an early hand on leaves a1v-a3r; with manuscript foliation and numbering of the three books in a later hand. Without rubrication. Provenance: Pembroke library, bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), with his instructions to the binder regarding spine lettering written in pencil on leaf a1r: "P: MEL: / REN: / VEN: / 1478". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: early eighteenth-century gold-tooled dull red morocco, characteristic of books bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733); sewn on five supports; narrow gilt border of a double fillet and two square dotted roll patterns with additional dentelle roll pattern along spine-edge and small fleuron corner-pieces; gilt dentelle roll pattern on board edges; spine heavily gilt in six compartments with stamp, roll and fillet decoration, the second compartment with gilt title 'P: MEL / REN: / VEN: / 1478' on brown leather label; gilt edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled paper pastedowns and conjoint free endpapers, plain paper flyleaves.
Makers and roles
Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD), author Franz Renner (fl. 1471-1483), printer