Pontani Opera. Vrania, siue de stellis libri quinq[ue]. Meteororum liber unus. De hortis hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina siue postorales [sic] pompae septem. Item Meliseus-Maeon Acon. Hendecasyllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae uero in toto opere habeantur in indice, qui in calce est, licet uidere.
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503)
Category
Books
Date
1513
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3078833
Summary
Bibliographic description
255, [1] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7046. Water-staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript capital letter written in ink at head of title page: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Manuscript number written in black ink at foot of title page: "49". Binding: sixteenth-century French[?] full dark brown calf over pasteboards; sewn on five supports; covers gold-tooled all over with a semé of fleurs-de-lys; rebacked and repaired in calf; gilt title and date on spine; gilt edges. New endpapers. Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired by Zaehnsdorf, 1964".
Makers and roles
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer