Book
Johann Friedrich Matenesius (d.1621)
Category
Books
Date
1611 - 1612
Materials
Measurements
152 x 110 x 27 mm
Place of origin
Cologne
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3181038
Summary
SIngle bound volume of 2 works.
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Laced case, limp Date of Binding: contemporary. 17.1 Binder's Name: British? End Leaves: Front: Inserted tipped single fold of cream machine-made wove paper, the outer leaf pasted to the inside of the cover. Back: 2-leaf outside hook with folded stub of plain, white, handmade, laid paper, outer leaf and stub pasted to cover Structure: British Edges: plain-cut with shallow angled blade marks, not decorated, polished Spine Lining: flat spine, no joints, no adhesive?, no linings. End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: None Covering: full hairsheep parchment, neat-trim turn-ins at head, tail and foredge Tooling Spine: 19th-century title tooled in black ink in panel 2 Tooling Sides: Furniture: None Enclosure: Binding Notes: second text: Ioannis Fridericus Matanesus, De Lvxv et Abvsv vestium nostri Temporis, Cologne: Apud Ioannem Crithium, 1612. Inscription by Hannibal Gamon on the first titlepage.
Bibliographic description
8vo. Provenance: inscribed "Hannibal Gamon Tandem D.O.M." [i.e. Hannibal Gamon, Rector of St. Mawgan, (1582?-1651)]. Binding: vellum, sewn onto three vellum bands.
Makers and roles
Johann Friedrich Matenesius (d.1621)