Abrahami Gorlaei Antuerpiani Dactyliothecae, seu Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus, ex ferro, aere, argento & auro promptuarii pars prima, collectis aliunde & ineditis & editis annulorum figuris auctior; cum explicationibus Jacobi Gronovii.
Abraham van Goorle (1549-1608)
Category
Books
Date
1695
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3095448
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 4to. Running number: 5897. Bound in 1 vol. Foot of front fly-leaf torn away. Variant pagination and signatures. Pagination: vol. 1: [22], 16, 28 p., [111] leaves of plates (1 folded); vol. 2: [14], 64 p., [175] leaves of plates ([60], [64] blank), 32 p. Signatures: vol. 1: pi4 (-pi4) A-D4 *-***4 ****2 (plates signed: A-Z4 Aa-Dd4 Ee1); vol. 2: pi2 [dagger]-2[dagger]4 **-8*4 9*2 (-9*2), Aaa-Ddd4 (plates signed: a-z4 (p4, q4 blank) aa-vv4 xx-zz2 (-x2, y2, z2)). Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [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: "ι'½"." [i.e. iota'½ = Greek number 10½]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled and plain calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title stamped on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Abraham van Goorle (1549-1608), author Jacobus Gronovius (1645-1716), editor Anthony van Zylvelt (Amsterdam c.1640 - after 1695) , engraver (printmaker)