Quarta[-Decimatertia] centuria ecclesiasticae historiae
Andreas Corvinus
Category
Books
Date
1560 - 1574
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3174902
Summary
Bibliographic description
13 pts. in 8 v. ; fol. Running number: 3490. Vols. 2-6 heavily wormed. Provenance: manuscript inscription on inside of front board in vol. 1: "M. 8. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of board: "ις'." [i.e. iota and stigma = Greek number 16]. Manuscript inscriptions on title pages (inscriptions vary slightly between volumes): "Spiritus est vicarius christi in terra. / Crede scripturis lege doctores", "Hac itur ad astra. ~ JAML [? monogram]" [not traced], "Christus nobis ianua vitae / franc: yate [name crossed out]" [not traced], and "Jo Northbroke" [i.e. John Northbrooke (fl. 1568-1579), Church of England clergyman, many of whose books began with the title "Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra"], plus a number of crossed-out small inscriptions. Bookseller's manuscript code on rear pasetdown of vol. 1: "1. ∞. W / P 10/W H / 31". Binding: sixteenth-century calf over wooden boards; bindings very worn and rubbed, torn in places, and wormed. Blind-tooled rectangular framework of triple fillets: plain outer frame mitred at the corners to a frame consisting of a floral roll pattern (vol. 7 with heads in medallions roll, vol. 8 with roll containing royal coat of arms and portcullis); plain frame; frame of heads in medallions roll, with cornerpiece stamps (vol. 8 with repeat of coat of arms and portcullis roll); decorative floral centrepiece stamps (vols. 1-6, vols. 7-8 plain). Fastenings for pair of leather clasps on upper boards (missing, torn off on most), brass catches on lower boards. Four raised bands of double leather thongs. Blind fillet panels on spines, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red stained edges. Binder's manuscript waste at front and back of vols. 1-6 (fifteenth/sixteenth-century[?], gothic script in red and black on vellum, includes musical notation); printed waste in vols. 7-8 (sixteenth-century, running title "Scriptorum Britanniae centuria tertia", leaves 142-144, 146-148, 4to. in vol. 7; sixteenth-century, running title "Precat. domini per Eras. Rot." in vol. 8). Manuscript fore-edge titles.
Makers and roles
Andreas Corvinus Matthias Flacius Illyricus (1520-1575) Thomas Holzhuter (d.1585) Matthaeus Richter (1528-1564) Basilius Faber (1520-1575) Johann Wigand (1523 - 1587)