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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1603
Materials
Place of origin
Oberursel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3187610
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 1414, [106] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 4165. 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: "β'." [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf; double blind fillet border; single panel formed with blind roll pattern, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges. Rebacked in goatskin[?]. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574) Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515) Cornelis Sutor (1596-1606) Lazarus Zetzner (d.1616) Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (1746 - 1820) James Melvin (1795-1953)