Macrobii in Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis. VI. libro De rep. eruditissima explanatio. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Censorinus De die natali, additis ex uetusto exemplari nonnullis, quae desiderabantur.
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius (fl.early 5th century)
Category
Books
Date
1528
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3077471
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 322, [2] leaves : ill., map ; 8vo. Running number: 7021. Manuscript marginal annotations and underlining of text written in brown ink in a seventeenth-century[?] hand on leaves a6v-c8r and sporadically thereafter. 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 sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; double gilt fillet border with gilt floral cornerpeices; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with brown leather label with gilt title 'Macrobius Aldi Censorinus Eiusdem'; red and brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius (fl.early 5th century), author Censorinus (fl.3rd century AD), author Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Bernardino Donato (1483-1543), editor Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer