C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Nouocomensis Epistolarum libri decem. Nunc quidem ab innumeris mendis uariorum exemplarium collatione repurgati. Reliqua quae in hoc habentur uolumine, sequens pagina commonstrabit.
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1551
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3194695
Summary
Bibliographic description
464, [16] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5163. Provenance: former shelfmark: "E.4.4". Manuscript book number on front endpaper: "(172)". Binding: sixteenth-century calf (head of spine missing); sewn on five double sewing supports; blind thin thick thin fillet border; panel of blind thin thick thin fillets, with gilt fleur-de-lys cornerpiece stamps; small lozenge-shaped gilt arabesque centepiece stamp; spine has small gilt fleur-de-lys stamps in panels, with blind fillets alongside raised bands and blind hatching at head and foot.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Younger (62-c.112 AD), author Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author Aldo Manuzio the Elder (1449/50 - 1515), editor Julius Obsequens (4th century)