Opus. Martiani Capellae De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii liberi duo. De gramatica. Liber. Tertius. De dialectica. Liber. Quartus. De rhetorica. Liber. Quintus. De geometria. Liber. Sextus. De arithmetica. Liber. Septimus. De astronomia. Liber. Octauus. De musica. Liber. Nonus.
Martianus Minneus Felix Capella
Category
Books
Date
1500
Materials
Place of origin
Modena
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094710
Summary
Bibliographic description
[100] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6955. Without border on the title page. Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication. Manuscript marginal notes written in a sixteenth-century hand, underlining of text and one manicule on leaf d4. Pencil note written by Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Modena. Brunet I, 1558". Worm holes in lower margin of leaves a1-m2. Provenance: manuscript inscription in an early sixteenth-century hand on title page (partially cropped by binder): "Hic labor ... [4 words, cropped] [?] labor imp[ro]bus omnia uincit Spes mea deus ... [5 words, crossed-out]". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript letter "S" on front fly-leaf, found in a number of books in Ellys's library. Binding: eighteenth-century reddish-brown diced Russia leather (goatskin?); sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet border, central panel formed by double and single blind fillets and blind roll pattern with blind foliate cornerpeices; gilt floral roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with acorn stamps within fillet panels, title lettered directly onto spine: 'Mart. Capell Mutinae 1500'; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, author Franciscus Vitalis Bodianus (fl. 15th-16th cent.), editor Dionysius Bertochus (fl. 15th cent.), printer