Della scienza chiamata cavalleresca libri tre. . Alla Santità di nostro signore Papa Clemente Undecimo.
Marchese Scipioni Maffei (1675-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1710
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140265
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],505,[7]p. . 4to.. Not indigenous. Meade collection.. Provenance: Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Inscribed: "R. S. Meade 1924" (Robert Sidney Stuart Meade, 1901-1971). Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: "Robert S. Meade", on back pastedown. Eighteenth-century[?] armorial bookplate, lettered: "Ex libris Marchionis Salsae". Nineteenth-century[?] armorial bookplate with motto "Comme je fus".. Binding: Eighteenth-century full vellum; blind medallion centrepiece on upper and lower covers; double blind fillets to form a border and inner frame; sewn over five raised bands; black spine label, gilt lettered. tracs of manuscript lettering.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade in 1999, and formerly in the library of Sidney Meade (1839-1917), Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, of Thurland Castle, Lancashire.
Makers and roles
Marchese Scipioni Maffei (1675-1755)