Trogi Pompeii Historia per Iustinum in compendium redacta proxime q[uam] emendatissime [a]edita.
Marcus Junianus Justinus (fl.c.390)
Category
Books
Date
1520
Materials
Place of origin
Milan
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3193994
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], cxxii leaves ; fol. Running number: 5062. Top right corner of title page torn off. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on verso of second front fly-leaf (facing title page): "W Stukeley dd. Illustrissimus Comes Pembrokiae 1722" (heavily crossed-out) [i.e. acquired from the library of the Earls of Pembroke by William Stukeley (1687-1765) in 1722. Stukeley was an antiquarian and natural philosopher, practising doctor in Boston and Grantham, member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, and friend of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), which is undoubtedly how this book ended up in the Ellys library], and in a different hand "Trogus / L. Florus / Ruffus". Manuscript inscription in pencil at head of title page: "S: RUFUS / MEDIOLA: / MINVTIA: / 1500" [i.e. instructions to the binder regarding spine lettering, pencilled in by the collector, and characteristic of books owned by, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733)]. With manuscript marginal annotations in at least two separate sixteenth-century hands and underscoring of text throughout, some partially cropped by binder. Binding: eighteenth-century dull red morocco by the Geometrical Compartment Binder for the Earl of Pembroke; narrow gilt fillet and roll pattern border, with fleuron corner-piece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine divided into six panels, with stamps and rolls in five panels and gilt title label (as per written instructions on title page) in one panel. All edges gilt. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Marcus Junianus Justinus (fl.c.390), author Lucius Annaeus Florus (c.74-c.130 AD), author Sextus Rufus (fl.4th century), author Trogus Pompeius (1st century BC), author Beroaldo, Filippo 1453, editor Alessandro Minuziano (fl.1495-1512), printer