Florilegii Magni, seu Polyantheae tomus secundus Jani Gruteri. Formatus concinnatusque ex quinquaginta minimum auctoribus vetustis, Graecis, Latinis, sacris, profanis, quorum tamen nullus fere comparet in tomo primo. Ideoque non solum novitate sua omnibus passi ordinibus, ecclesiasticis, politicis, scholasticis futurus jucundissimus: Sed & summè utilis & necessarius, pace, bello, tam Tyronibus quam Veteranis: non modò Apollinis atque Minervae, sed & Martis & Bellonae: Utpote complexus libros omnes Graecos Latinosque hactenus editos, de re militari. Accessère & heic quoque nova apophthagmata, emblemata, mythologica: item XXV monostichorum Latinorum millia; totidem redolentia definitiones, sententias, dogmata, similitudines, proverbia, exempla, &c. decerpta penè ad verbum ex literati orbis scriptoribus classicis. Elenchus titulorum totius opeis epistolae adjunctus.
Jan Gruter (Gruytere) (1560-1627)
Category
Books
Date
1624
Materials
Place of origin
Strasbourg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3195748
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([12], 1050, [2]; [8], 994, [2] p.) ; fol. Running number: 5328. Provenance: manuscript price on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "2 Tom 10s-0". Manuscript letters on front fly-leaf of both vols: "ns". Manuscript inscription on vol. 1 fly-leaf facing title page: "M. 2. vol. In this first vol. Bbb4 is put before Bbb3" [i.e. catalogue entry and collation note by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ζ'" [i.e. zeta' = Greek number 7]. Booksellers' code beneath imprint on both title pages: "12[upside down]/s - Ad". Initials blind stamped on covers: IH. Inscription in ink on front cover of both vols: "Pedden". Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; framework of two blind double fillets as the border; gilt chain roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets and gilt title/vol. number label on spines. Red sprinkled edges in slanted bands. Initials IH and inscription "Pedden" on covers.
Makers and roles
Jan Gruter (Gruytere) (1560-1627), editor Joseph Lang (c.1570-1615) Bartolomaeus Amantius (1505 - 1576), editor Domenico Nani Mirabelli