Esopus moralisatus cum bono co[m]mento.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1492
Materials
Place of origin
Cologne
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069907
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 7001. Initials added in black ink. A few manuscript marginal annotations in an early hand. Written in black ink on title page: "1492" and "a" (underlined), both eighteenth-century. Written in black ink beneath colophon: "finis" in a sixteenth-century[?] hand and "Impressus 29. Septembr. 1492" in an eighteenth-century hand. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "C. & P." [i.e. the "collated and perfect" mark of the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)]; it has been erased but is still just visible. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Bookseller's code in black ink on front pastedown: "e/y". Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; double blind fillet border with additional blind floral roll along side closest to spine; blind roll pattern along board edges; spine plain except for brown leather title label 'Esopus cum Com[m]ento 1492' in gilt; sprinkled bookblock edges; 6 blank leaves bound-in at front, 66 blank leaves bound-in at rear.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE), author Anonymus Neveleti, author Heinrich Quentell (d. 1501), printer possibly Walter of England, Archbishop of Palermo (d.1190), author