Mousaiou Poiēmation ta kath Hērō kai Leandron. Orpheōs Argonautika. Tou autou Hymnoi. Orpheus Peri lithōn. = Musaei Opusculum de Herone & Leandro. Orphei Argonautica. Eiusdem Hymni. Orpheus De lapidibus.
Musaeus, Grammaticus (late 5th century AD)
Category
Books
Date
1517
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3078251
Summary
Bibliographic description
80 leaves : 2 ill. (woodcuts) ; 8vo. Running number: 7044. Water-staining throughout. Stub of leaf torn-out[?] leaf before title page. Provenance: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras (1517-1586). Eighteenth-century manuscript inscription in pencil on front fly-leaf verso (facing title page): "C 1705 1M" [i.e. purchase date and code written by John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer; Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 1130 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of front fly-leaf recto: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Binding: bound in Venice ca. 1547 for Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras (1517-1586) by the Fugger Binder or Venetian Apple Binder; sixteenth-century full brown goatskin over pasteboards, tooled in gilt and blind; panel design on covers, outer panel with quadruple blind fillets and blind thin-thick-thin fillets enclosing single gilt fillet, inner panel with blind thin-thick-thin fillets enclosing single gilt fillet with semicircles in centre of each, the outer and inner panels joined at the corners with gilt fillet between blind thin-thick-thin fillets; author and title lettered in gilt on front cover 'MUSAEI OPUSC. / ET ALIORUM'; traces of four pairs of ties, two on fore-edge and one at head and foot of boards; spine with three raised bands and four half bands (raised bands tooled in gold dashes, half bands tooled in gold diagonal stripes), eight compartments tooled in blind with fillets and leafy curls; gilt gauffered edges with dotted-line border; purple painted label (but no title) on top of the gilt on fore-edge of bookblock, characteristic of books bound for Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. Head and tail of spine damaged.
Makers and roles
Musaeus, Grammaticus (late 5th century AD), author Proclus (c.410 - 485), author Janus Lascaris (1445-1535), editor Moschus, Demetrius (15th century), writer Markos Mousouros (1470-1517), translator Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer