Ioannis MeursI Roma luxurians. Sive, De luxu Romanorum, liber singularis. Item, Mantisa. Editio nova; auctior, & emendatior.
Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639).
Category
Books
Date
1631
Materials
Place of origin
Copenhagen
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3114416
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 154, [14] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7164. Extensive water-staining throughout. 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)]. Manuscript number on front fly-leaf: "291". Manuscript inscription at head of front pastedown has been totally erased. Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Antiquarij. 10". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn onto three sewing supports, with five raised bands on spine; double blind fillet border; rebacked (twentieth-century?) in sheepskin, with original gilt title label retained. Blue sprinkled textblock edges. Six gatherings of four blank leaves, uncut at head, bound-in at rear.
Makers and roles
Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (1579-1639).