C. Suetonii Tranquilli XII. Caesares. . Item IO. Baptistae Egnatii ... de romanis princibus, libri III. Eiusdem annotationes in Suetonium. Annotat in eundem, & loca aliquot restituta per D. Erasmum Roter.
Suetonius (c.69-c.122)
Category
Books
Date
1547
Materials
Measurements
129 x 79 x 39 mm
Place of origin
France
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3090623
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English? End Leaves: Front: single sheet hook of me ms parchment with added bifolium of white laid paper (ruled) sewn to its stub, Back: sewn single sheet outside-hook of plain white laid paper within hook of me ms parchment Structure: English Edges: plain cut [knife cut], coloured solid yellow(?), polished Spine Lining: slight round, angled joints, no linings End Bands: worked L-R 2x2 in blue and white thread over rolled leather cores, cut at the joints. Bookmark: None Boards: paper pasteboard [early printed waste] Covering: dark brown tanned calf Tooling Spine: blind tooled t/t/t roll at head and tail of each narrow panel - almost filling them. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled 1-fillet border Furniture: two pairs of green silk ribbon ties on the foredge, Lace type 1. Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Inserted front flyleaf: George Winne
Bibliographic description
632,[38]p. . 16mo.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: Rowland Crosbee. manuscript on front flyleaf: George Winne [i.e.: either George Wynne (1560-1610) or Sir George Winn, 1st Bart. (1607-1667)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf; single blind fillet to form a border; sewn onto five raised leather thongs; two pieces of manuscript waste used as pastedowns - liturgical music, fourteenth/fifteenth century.
Makers and roles
Suetonius (c.69-c.122) Giovanni Battista Egnazio (c.1478 - 1553) Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)