Cl. Salmasii De re militari Romanorum liber. Opus posthumum.
Claude Saumaise (1588-1653)
Category
Books
Date
1657
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3072920
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 243 [i.e. 241], [3] p. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 5493. Wanting final blank leaf. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "D.6.17". Manuscript inscription and price on front fly-leaf: "Not[?] Orond[?] Richardson" and "2s:-6d". Manuscript ownership inscription (scribbled over, illegible) and price on title page: "... pret. 3s-6". Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; blind double fillet border, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillet and roll decoration on spine; remnants on manuscript title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges. Manuscript title fore-edge label pasted onto foot of p. 212: "Salmasius de Re Milit:".
Makers and roles
Claude Saumaise (1588-1653) George Horn (1620-1670), editor