Lucii Annei Flori Epitomatum in Titum Liuium liber primus. Prooemium.
Lucius Annaeus Florus (c.74-c.130 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1471 - 1472
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094711
Summary
Bibliographic description
[58] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6959. Worm holes throughout. Pencil notes written by Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "58 leaves, v, Brunet II 1310" and "[Venice, c. 1471]". With manuscript marginal markings throughout and occasional marginal notes in a contemporary fifteenth-century or early sixteenth-century hand, and manuscript running title, partially cropped by binder. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "-14-". Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf binding; sewn on five supports; gold-tooled spine with interlaced tool in fillet panels, roll pattern at head and tail; gilt title 'Lucius Florus' on brown leather label on spine and edition statement 'Edit prim' lettered directly onto spine; bookblock edges painted red.
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Florus (c.74-c.130 AD), author Printer of Basilius, 'De vita solitaria' (fl.1471-1475), printer