Isaaci Casauboni De Satyrica Graecorum poesi, & Romanorum satira libri duo. In quibus etiam poetae recensentur, qui in vtraque poesi floruerunt.
Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614)
Category
Books
Date
1605
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3109227
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 356, [4], 38, [2] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5437. Provenance: armorial binding with the Stuart royal arms and garter "Honi soit qui mal y pense": quarterly, I and IV, quarterly 1st and 4th three fleurs de lys (for France), 2nd and 3rd three lions passant guardant in pale (for England); II a lion rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory (for Scotland); III a harp stringed (for Ireland). Manuscript inscriptions on front pastedown: "C. & P. /" [i.e. the "collated and perfect" mark of the bibliophile Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725)], and "NB. pagina 67. Gemmae ectypon Bacchanalia exhibentem". Manuscript capital letter on front fly-leaf: "A". Binding: armorial; seventeenth-century full calf; sewn on four supports; gilt double fillet border; centrepiece stamp of the Stuart royal arms of the King of England, Scotland and Ireland with garter "Honi soit qui mal y pense"; stubs of two pairs of blue linen ties; gilt lozenge chain roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on red leather label on spine. Gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614) Florent Chrestien (1541-1596) Euripides (484-480-406 BC), author