Lucanus cum duobus commentis. Cum gratia [et] preuilegio.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1498
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095385
Summary
Bibliographic description
[218] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6956. On leaf a1r a six-line initial ‘B' is supplied in outline with shading in black ink; on leaf c8v a three-line initial 'J' supplied in black ink with hatched shading; on leaf m2v a two-line initial 'S' supplied in outline in brown ink; on leaf r4v a three-line initial supplied in black ink with hatched shading; other initial spaces not filled in. Without rubrication. Occasional ink and pencil marks in margins; occasional ink corrections to printed text. Bifolia containing sigs. n1+2, n3+4, n5+6, n7+8 and u1+2, u3+4, u5+6, u7+8 are mounted on guards. Worm hole from leaf a1 through to c5, and from B2 through to D6. Damp-staining from leaf z7 through to D6. Provenance: from the library of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733). Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf facing title page, heavily crossed-out but still legible: "W Stukeley d.d. Illustrissimus Comes Pembrokiae 1722" [i.e. acquired (a gift?) from the 8th Earl of Pembroke by William Stukeley (1687-1765) in 1722. The 8th Earl of Pembroke was a friend and patron of William Stukeley, the Lincolnshire antiquarian and practising doctor]. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire [Ellys was a friend of William Stukeley, his fellow Lincolnshire antiquarian and member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, which is undoubtedly how this book ended up in Ellys's library]. Manuscript inscription in eighteenth-century hand on front fly-leaf facing title page: "Lucan Sulpicii Verulanii commentarius. Omniboni". Bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, with his instructions to the binder regarding spine lettering in pencil on leaf A1 recto: "LVCAN BEVELA: VEN: 1498". Binding: early eighteenth-century gold-tooled dull red morocco, characteristic of books bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733); sewn on five supports; narrow gilt border of a double fillet and two square dotted roll patterns with additional dentelle roll pattern along spine-edge and small fleuron corner-pieces; gilt dentelle roll pattern on board edges; spine heavily gilt in six compartments with stamp, roll and fillet decoration, the second compartment with gilt title 'LUCAN BEVELA VEN 1498' on brown goatskin label; gilt edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled paper pastedowns and conjoint free endpapers, plain paper flyleaves.
Makers and roles
Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39-65 AD), author Ognibene Bonisoli (ca. 1412-1474), commentator Joannrs Sulpitius Verulanus (fl.15th century), commentator Taberio, Giovanni, editor Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author Giovanni Britannico (fl.15/16th century), author Cristoforo Lanfranchini (1430-1504), author Giulio Pomponio Leto (1428-1497), author Simon Bevilaqua (fl. 1485-1518), printer