Dionysiou Oikoumenēs periēgēsis. Aratou Phainomena. Proklou Sphaira. = Dionysij Orbis descriptio. Arati Astronomicon. Procli Sphaera. Cum scholijs Ceporini.
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1523
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3192074
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 135, [5]; [128] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 4937. Damp and mould staining on quires F-H. Provenance: manuscript old shelfmark: "N.1.12". Manuscript book number on recto of first front fly-leaf: "(242)". Former shelfmark in pencil on recto of first front fly-leaf: "7.H.16". Manuscript inscription on verso of first front fly-leaf: "I. Bontius Lugduno-batavus Anno 1609" [i.e. Jakob de Bondt (1592-1631), of Leiden, Dutch physician and pioneer of tropical medicine]. Manuscript inscription on recto of second front fly-leaf: "N175". Black ink-stamp on recto of second front fly-leaf: 'Antonius Perrenotvs' [possibly Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586), cardinal, Bishop of Arras, Archbishop of Mechelen and Besançon, chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and minister of King Philip II of Spain]. Manuscript inscription at head of title page: "Ex libris ... de ... [name erased]". With manuscript marginal annotations in Greek and Latin, and long note on p. 135. Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports; framework of thin thick thin fillets, outer frame plain, middle frame with blind roll pattern of flowers and wavey lines, central frame with blind fleur-de-lys in lozenge centrepiece stamp. Rebacked and repaired in sheepskin. Manuscript fore-edge title: "ARATI". Modern pencil note on front fly-leaf: "32 B repaired at Cambridge 1956?".
Makers and roles
Dionysius Periegetes (c.117-c138 AD), author Aratus (c.315/310 – 240 BC), author Proclus (c.410 - 485), author Jacob Ceporinus (1499-1525), editor Thomas Linacre (1460-1524), editor