Tade enestin en tōde tō bibliō. Loukianou. Philostratou Eikones. Tou autou Hērōïka. Tou autou Bioi sophistōn. Philostratou neōterou Eikones. Kallistratou Ekphraseis. = Que hoc volumine continentur. Luciani opera. Icones Philostrati. Eiusdem Heroica. Eiusdem uitae Sophistarum. Icones Iunioris Philostrati. Descriptiones Callistrati. Loukianou eis tēn eautou biblon. Loukianos tad'egrapse, palaia te, mōra te eidōs. mōra g anthrōpoio kai ta dokounta sopha. Ouden en anthrōpoisi diakridon esti noēma, all ho ou thaumazeis, touth heteroisi gelōs.
Lucian of Samosata (c.117-c.180 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1503
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3070961
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 449, [1], 450-571, [2] p. ; fol. Former shelfmark: 3.d.20. Running number: 7097. Worm holes in inner margin from front pastedown through to leaf [beta]8 and from leaf [epsilon]6 through to rear pastedown. Worm holes from leaf 2[kappa]4 through to rear pastedown, with small loss of text. Water-staining at foot and inner margins from leaf [alpha]1 through to leaf [beta]8, [theta]3 to [theta]7, [lambda]6 to [rho]2, and [omega]7 to 2[nu]6. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), of Nocton Hall, Lincolnshire. Manuscript former shelfmark in eighteenth-century hand on front pastedown: I.1.6. [or J.1.6.] [possibly in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] on front pastedown: "12lt" [i.e. 12 livres tournois?]. Manuscript numbers on front free endpaper: "12" and "12e". Manuscript number at foot of rear free endpaper: "456". Manuscript price[?] at foot of rear pastedown: "20lt" [i.e. 20 livres tournois?]. With some manuscript marginal annotations in Greek and other markings (three dots above wavy line) in a sixteenth-century[?] hand on pp. 17, 64, 71, 109-110, 114, 117, 119, 123-124, 211, 214-217, 219, 259, 261-264, 266, 276-277, 279, 282, 305, 316, 318-319, and 322-323. Binding: sixteenth-century architectural binding of olive green goatskin over wooden boards grooved at the edges, by the "Binder of the Blickling Lucian" in Bologna, ca. 1503-1504 (see Anthony Hobson, Humanists and bookbinders, Cambridge U.P. 1989, p. 158 no. 30 and fig. 125); sewn onto four sewing supports. Both covers have a blind-tooled framework of thin thick thin fillets in a complex architectural pattern, with four outer frames consisting of two unadorned frames alternating with two frames containing repeated arabesque tools. The large central panel contains a blind-tooled architectural pattern of fillets and arabesque and fleuron tools to form an arch on top of a plinth on two columns, with individual tools of two fleur-de-lys on either side of the arch, a winged cherub's head underneath the arch, two cornerpieces at the head of the panel, and at the foot of the panel a wolf's head tool between four floral tools. In the centre of both covers, between the columns, is a gilt circular centrepiece consisting of two concentric circles; on the upper board this contains the Greek words ΑΡΑΝΤΑ | ΤΑ [i.e. Hapanta ta] with five small fleuron tools and three small cinquefoil tools in gilt, and on the lower board the Greek words ΤΟΥ | ΛΟΥΚΙΑ | ΝΟΥ [i.e. Tou Loukianou] and one small fleuron tool and two small cinquefoil tools in gilt. The whole design imitating a classical sarcophagus or portal. Evidence of four pairs of ties or clasps on lower board, two on fore-edge, one at head and one at foot, probably plaited thongs; stubs of four small metal studs on edges of upper board. Four raised bands on spine. Undecorated spine, faded to brown. Gilt title LUCIANUS | PHILOSTRAT | GR | AL ALDO on brown goatskin label on spine, probably added in the seventeenth- or eighteenth- century. Bookblock edges stained dark blue. Manuscript title "Dialogi Luciani" in sixteenth-century hand on head of bookblock edge. Thirteen other bindings with the same tools have been identified from this binding workshop, many from the Aldine press. Stored in modern brown buckram book box.
Makers and roles
Lucian of Samosata (c.117-c.180 AD), author Callistratus, author Philostratus, the Athenian (2nd - 3rd century BC), author Philostratus the Lemnian (fl.3rd century), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer and publisher