De proprietate verborum veneriorum.
Beverland, Hadriaan
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3087020
Summary
Bibliographic description
[62] leaves, bound ; 29 cm. (4to.) Running number: 7070. Shelved and uniform with Hadriaan Beverland's MS. "Peri tēs erōtikēs omilias Onomastikon Aphrodision" (Windsor, 1680). Provenance: the author's armorial bookplate, lettered 'Had. Beverlandi' and with motto 'Generoso sanguine parta' [i.e. Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)]. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on leaf [2]r: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Binding: seventeenth-century full brown goatskin; sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet border, double and single gilt fillet panel with gilt floral tool at the corners; gilt roll pattern on board edges; double gilt fillet panels on spine; 'BART TEL BHEEN' lettered in gilt directly onto spine; gilt edges; comb pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Beverland, Hadriaan, author