L. Apuleii Madaurensis philosophi platonici Metamorphoseos, siue De asino aureo libri vndecim, / cu[m] præfatione, & argumentis Philippi Beroaldi in singulos libros, & authoris vita. His accessit in calce difficilum quorunque verborum interpretatio, quæ breuis commentarii vice esse poterit.
Apuleius (c.125- after 170)
Category
Books
Date
1536
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3115128
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 159, [25] leaves ; 8vo. Annotated in Thomas Pennye’s hand. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on titlepage: [Greek] Thomas Pennye 1560 ca[n]tabr. Manuscript inscription on titlepage: Jeff: Gilbert [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Sixteenth-century dark brown calf over boards on four tanned raised cords, single gilt fillet on spine, red spine label, blind triple fillet [thin-thick-thin] and centrepiece on covers, single blind fillet on board edges, red painted edges. Manuscript fore-edge title [not legible]. Written notes on paper waste used as flyleaves; vellum manuscript waste used as back pastedown [no front pastedown]. Cover held on by back stitching and cords; front cords broken and spine glue dessicated.
Makers and roles
Apuleius (c.125- after 170) Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505), commentator