Sapientia Sirachi siue Ecclesiasticus. Collatis lectionibus variantibus membranarum Augustanarum vetustissimarum, & XIV. praeterea exemplarium. Addita versione Latina vulgata, ex editione Romana. Cum notis Dauidis Hoeschelii Augustani, in quibus multa SS. Patrum loca illustrantur.
David Hoeschel (1556-1617)
Category
Books
Date
1604
Materials
Place of origin
Augsburg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095362
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 463, [1] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 2665. Provenance: manuscript initial "M." on front fly-leaf [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ε'." [i.e. epsilon' = Greek number 5]. Manuscript inventory code[?] upside down and between two lines on front fly-leaf: "T8 20". Manuscript inscription on title page: "R. Widdrington" [possibly a member of the Widdrington family, barons Widdrington, of Blankney, Lincolnshire, neighbours of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742). R. Widdrington is possibly Ralph Widdrington (1614/15-1688), of Christ's College and Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University]. Manuscript inscription (Biblical note and reference) in seventeetnth-century hand on front fly-leaf: "Jesus Sirachidis Hierosolymitanus ...". Manuscript numbers on rear fly-leaf. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain limp vellum. Rebacked at some point in vellum containing very faint manuscript words. Printed waste visible on the pasted sides of the front and rear pastedowns. Pencil note on front pastedown: "repaired at Cambridge 1956".
Makers and roles
David Hoeschel (1556-1617)