De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
Category
Books
Date
1661
Materials
Place of origin
The Hague
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3175687
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 402 [i.e. 420], 96; [4], 67, [1] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 3535. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [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 leaf: "α'." [i.e. alpha' = Greek number 1]. Manuscript number on front fly-leaf: "D.305". Manuscript inscription on rear fly-leaf: "Melchior Goldastus de imp: Germ: bene meritus". Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border, with two quarter double blind fillets; blind roll pattern on board edges; blind fillet panels on spine. Marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Carolus Everwijn (d. 1670) David Blondel (1591-1655)