Theatrum basilicae Pisanae, in quo praecipuae illius partes enarrationibus, iconibusque ostenduntur. Curâ, & studio Josephi Martinii ejusdem basilicae canonici, & J. S.
Giuseppe Martini (d.1732)
Category
Books
Date
1705
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3102591
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 156 [i.e. 158], [12] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; fol. Running number: 6305. Worming on front and rear endpapers. Wanting leaf C7 (containing p. 43 and full page illustration tab. 10). Leaf P1 (containing "Index chronologicus pontificum Pisanorum") has the original page numbers pasted over with small paper slips printed on which are the correct page numbers 157 and 158. Two plates (containing tab. 30-31 and tab. 32) which should follow p. 130 are bound-in following p. 158. Provenance: manuscript capital letter and number at head of front fly-leaf: "A" and "35". Manuscript addition to text at the end of the first column on the second page of Appendix. Binding: eighteenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn onto four sewing supports; manuscript number at head of front cover: "C32: - 31 S5T"; manuscript number at head of spine: "71". Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Giuseppe Martini (d.1732), author Domenico Mariano Franceschini, engraver (printmaker) Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1659/71 - c.1741) , engraver (printmaker) Melani, Francesco, illustrator Melani, Giuseppe, illustrator Sikkelaer, Pieter van, engraver (printmaker) Arnold van Westerhout (1651 - 1725), engraver (printmaker)