Strabonis Geographi Europe primus commentaries.
Strabo (64/63 BC–c. 24 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1473
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3131580
Summary
Bibliographic description
[240] leaves ; fol. No running number. Wanting blank leaves [a1] and [A10]. Leaf [a2] repaired around edges with blank paper strips pasted onto the verso. Final index leaf partially missing, repaired with tissue paper. Initial spaces left blank. Copious marginal manuscript annotations and notes in Latin throughout, in a contemporary Italian hand using black, red and brown inks, identifying current names and locations for places described in the printed text, with occasional contemporary details of ports and produce, or events. With some manuscript manicules (e.g. leaves [70]r, [74]v, [77]r, [123]r, [191]v) and other marginal markings. Book number heading supplied in brown ink on recto of each leaf. Foliation supplied in black ink on recto of each leaf (not taking into account missing initial blank leaf). Manuscript index in same contemporary Italian hand meticulously compiled in four columns per page on 26 blank leaves bound-in at end. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Sold by the 11th Marquess of Lothian in 1932 (lot 42 in auction catalogue, bought by Brick Row Bookshop for 425 dollars). Purchased by the National Trust in 1990 and returned to Blickling. Bookseller's codes in pencil on recto of rear free endpaper. Binding: English eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on six supports; double and single blind fillet border; spine rebacked in calf, gilt panels of original spine retained and laid-on, with brown goatskin title label 'Strabonis Geographia Lat. Romae: 1473'; red stained bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Provenance
From the library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) at Blickling Hall. Sold by the 11th Marquis of Lothian in 1932, New York. Purchased by the National Trust in 1990.
Makers and roles
Strabo (64/63 BC–c. 24 AD), author Guarino, Veronese, translator Giovanni Andrea Bussi (1417-1475), editor Gregorio Tifernate (1414-ca. 1462), translator Pannartz, Arnold, printer Sweynheim, Konrad, printer