Valerii Maximi Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri nouem.
Valerius Maximus (fl.14-37 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1502
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3075801
Summary
Bibliographic description
[212] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7008. Manuscript foliation 1-100 in black ink on leaves A1-M8. Provenance: manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of front fly-leaf: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Binding: eighteenth-century full red goatskin; sewn on four supports; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with foliate decoration, and lettered in gilt 'VALER: MAXIM:'; red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Valerius Maximus (fl.14-37 AD), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer