Lucii Apuleii platonici Madaurensis philosophi metamorphoseos liber: ac nonnulla alia opuscula eiusdem: necnon epitoma Alcinoi in disciplinarum Platonis desinunt.
Apuleius (c.125- after 170)
Category
Books
Date
1488
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3084689
Summary
Bibliographic description
[178] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6944. Imperfect: wanting first leaf A1 and two final leaves [us]5-6. Pencil note on front fly-leaf written by Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser): "shd. have 178 ll. - see Charlecote copy". Initial spaces left blank. No decoration. Frequent manuscript marginal annotations in at least two different sixteenth-century hands. Provenance: Pembroke library, bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: English, early eighteenth-century gold-tooled dull red morocco, characteristic of books bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733); sewn on six supports; narrow gilt border of a double fillet and two dotted roll patterns with additional dentelle roll pattern along spine-edge and fleuron corner-piece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; spine heavily gilt in seven compartments with stamp, roll and fillet decoration, the second compartment with gilt title 'APULE: / S: URSO: / VICENT: / 1488.' on brown goatskin label; remnants of paper label at foot of spine; gilt edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled paper pastedowns and conjoint free endpapers, plain paper flyleaves.
Makers and roles
Apuleius (c.125- after 170), author Alcinous, author possibly Aristotle (384-322 BC), author possibly Hermes Trismegistus, author Giovanni Andrea Bussi (1417-1475), editor Pietro Balbi (1399 - 1479), translator Sancto Ursio, Henricus de, printer