Augustini Steuchi Eugubini Episcopi Kisami, Apost. S. bibliothecarij, viri doctissimi, De perenni philosophia libri X. Opus immensa non solum eruditione ac pietate refertum, sed omniu[m] quoq[ue] tam ueterum quàm recentiorum philosophorum quasi medullam complectens, hincq[ue] ut lectu dignissimum, iam denuò in lucem editum. Item de Eugubij, urbis suae, nomine.
Agostino Steuco (1497-1548)
Category
Books
Date
1542
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188136
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 723, [3] p. ; 4to. Running number: 4269. Errata corrected in manuscript. Provenance: former shelfmark: D.2.8. Manuscript inscriptions on title page: [1] "Sum Adriani Ambrosii" [i.e. Adrianus Ambrosius]; this name has been crossed-out and replaced with [2] "Francisci Baudmesty[?]"; [3] "Sum[?] Cypriani Knossons[?] [cipher] 1689" [i.e. Sybren Cnossen, possibly of the Cnossen family who had an estate near Bolsward, Friesland; the family coat of arms is a double-headed eagle, which are stamped as cornerpieces on the binding]; [4] "Ex donatione Affinis sui Bavii Nauta. ...[illegible]starii Dantumad...[illegible]" ["Bavii Nauta" = Bavius Nauta; there were a number of men named Bavius Nauta active in Leeuwarden in the seventeenth-century, i.e. Bavius Nauta (b. 1635), and his son the bookbinder Bavius Nauta (b. 1660). "Dantumad" = Dantumadiel or Dantumadeel, part of present-day Frisia in the Netherlands]. Occasional manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring of text. Binding: sixteenth-century calf, sewn onto 5 leather cords. Blind thin thick thin fillet border; single panel of blind thin thick thin fillets, with gilt double-headed eagle with crown cornerpiece stamps; gilt interlaced knotwork centrepiece stamp. Rebacked in sheepskin[?]. Gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red stained edges. Very faint manuscript fore-edge title. Binder's manuscript waste (fifteenth-century?) on vellum lining spine.
Makers and roles
Agostino Steuco (1497-1548) Nikolas Brylinger (fl.1537-1565) Sebastian Franck (1499-1542)