Orthographiae ratio ab Aldo. Manutio Paulli f. collecta ex libris antiquis grammaticis etymologia Graeca consuetudine nummis ueteribus tabulis aereis lapidibus amplius M D Interpungendi ratio Notarum ueterum explanatio Kalendarium uetus Romanum, e marmore descriptum, cum Paulli Manutij, patris, commentariolo, de ueterum dierum ratione & Kalendarij explanatione Aldi Manutij, Aui, de uitiata vocalium, ac diphthongorum prolatione, parergon.
Aldo Manuzio (1547-1597)
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3093340
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 pts. in 1 v. (800;167, [41] p.) ; 8vo. Running number: 362. Gatherings [cross]1-8 and 2[cross]1-8 (32 p.) mis-bound at end of pt.1 following leaf Ddd8. Manuscript notes written in an eighteenth-century hand on verso of blank leaf L8 and on recto of the facing first rear fly-leaf, and on verso of seventeenth rear fly-leaf. Manuscript notes written in a sixteenth-century hand on recto of eighteenth rear fly-leaf. Provenance: armorial binding (unidentified). Eighteenth-century manuscript code on front free endpaper: "S" (found in many of Blickling's books but so far unknown as to what it means). Binding: Germany[?], sixteenth-century full calf; sewn on four raised bands; double blind fillet border, triple blind fillet panel with gilt acorn cornerpiece stamps; gilt oval armorial centrepiece stamp on both covers: on a bend three lion heads, surrounded by motto in oval ring 'GOT MEIN HELM AN ALLEM LERM' and containing stylised helm affronty at top and a six pointed star and crescent at bottom; blind fillet along turn-ins; spine with hatched and dashed blind-tooling at head and tail, and fillet and dashed blind-tooling on raised bands, with date 1[5]67 stamped in blind in first four panels and a blind fleuron stamp in fifth panel; brown leather title label 'MANUTII ORTHOGRAPHIA' glued over second panel (obscuring the second numeral of the date) on spine; manuscript title "ALDI. MANUTII Ortograph. ratio" written across fore-edge of textblock; bookblock edges stained a pale yellow.
Makers and roles
Aldo Manuzio (1547-1597), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), author Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), printer and publisher