Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesuntini De divinatione et magicis praestigiis, quarum veritas ac vanitas solidè exponitur per descriptionem deorum fatidicorum qui olim responsa dederunt; eorundemque prophetarum, sacerdotum, phoebadum, sibyllarum & divinorum, qui priscis temporibus celebres oraculis exstiterunt: adjunctis simul omnium effigiebus, ab ipso autore è gemmis, marmoribus, tabulisq[ue] antiquis ad vivum delineatis; jam modò eleganter aeri incisis per Joh. Theodor de Bry civem Oppenheimensem, in cujus icono-bibliopolio prostat. Opus theologis, historicis, poëtis, politicis, philosophis, antiquariis, tam jucundum, quàm utile, imò verò necessarium: cum indice.
Jean Jacques Boissard (1528-1602)
Category
Books
Date
1615
Materials
Place of origin
Oppenheim
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3174107
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 358 [i.e. 348], [12] p. : ill., ports. ; fol. Running number: 6276. Provenance: manuscript numbers on front pastedown and free endpaper: "3963" and "171". Manuscript code symbol in pencil on front fly-leaf. Manuscript inscription at foot of title page: "Pauli Terhaarij, Amstelodamaei. 1649" [i.e. Paul Terhaar (1625-1667), professor of History, Eloquence and Greek at the University of Duisburg. An auction catalogue for his library was published in 1667]. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn onto five sewing supports; fore-edges folded-over; stubs of two pairs of green linen ties on fore-edges; manuscript title on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jean Jacques Boissard (1528-1602), author Johann Theodor de Bry, engraver (printmaker)