Codicis Iustiniani [...] libri XII. . Notis Dionysii Gothofredi illustrati.
Emperor Justinian I, Emperor of the East (c.482-565)
Category
Books
Date
1652
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 3117150
Summary
Bibliographic description
[26]p.,972 columns,[10]p.,568 columns . 4to.. Lacks preliminary leaf *3, and final leaf (Tt2). With various scraps of paper and nineteenth-century Spanish visiting cards loose inside. Also one sheet of a small book of devotions to the evangelists, perhaps seventeenth century. Ms. annotations.. Provenance: In pencil on inside of board 'Duncan McCann 11 June 1940'. 'RMC bought May 9 188- Valencia'. Several names in earlier hands written on title page and elsewhere, mostly illegible.. Binding: Eighteenth-century. Sewn. Vellum over pasteboards, made with printed waste of texts in Spanish, including a title page dated 1710. Bands tacketed through cover at head and tail. Joints stuck with brown gummed paper tape.
Makers and roles
Emperor Justinian I, Emperor of the East (c.482-565) Denis Godefroy (1549-1621)