Delitiae C. poetarum Gallorum, huius superiorisque aevi illustrium. Pars prima. Collectore Ranutio Ghero.
Jan Gruter (Gruytere) (1560-1627)
Category
Books
Date
1609
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3098847
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 955, 21 p. ; 16mo. Imperfect: pars. I only, wanting pars. II and III; wanting title page. Provenance: possibly from the library of Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Extensive manuscript notes in French written in a small, neat eighteenth-century[?] hand on front pastedown. Manuscript verse in Latin written in a different eighteenth-century[?] hand on rear pastedown. Old Felbrigg shelfmarks in pencil: L1 (crossed-out), X1, Y1 (in ink). Binding: seventeenth-century parchment; sewn on three supports; fore-edges extended and folded-over; manuscript title at head of spine, beneath which is a lozenge-shaped paper label with manuscript number (shelfmark?) In book box.
Makers and roles
Jan Gruter (Gruytere) (1560-1627), editor