C. Plinii Secundi Historiae mundi libri XXXVII. Vetustissimorum codicum collatione maiore quàm antehac studio, fide, & religione à vitiis quibus multiplici olim impressione contaminati fuera[n]t, vindicati, atq[ue] in quatuor tomos dispertiti, quoru[m] hic primus octo libros complectitur. Cum indice hac postrema manu ditissime ac castigatissimo facto.
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1560 - 1561
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3175102
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. in 2 ; 12mo. Running number: 4655. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 title page: "Hiero:[nymus] Ossolin. kj[?]. dddti[?]". Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full limp vellum; single gilt fillet border, with small gilt roundel stamps at corners; central panel of single gilt fillets, with gilt cornerpiece stamps; gilt decorative centrepiece stamp; yapp edges, with gilt fillet panel; pair of holes in covers for ties (missing); gilt fillet and stamp decoration on spines, with manuscript title. Edges stained red.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) Andreas Morguaesius Jacques Daléchamps (Caen 1513 - Lyon 1588)