Florilegii Magni, seu Polyantheae floribus nouissimis sparsae, libri XX. Opus praeclarum, suauissimis celebrorum sententiarum, vel Graecarum, vel Latinarum flosculis refertum. Iam olim à Domenico Nano Mirabellio, Bartholomaeo Amantio, Francisco Tortio, ex auctoribus cum sacris, tum profanis, vetustioribus & recentioribus, collectum. Studio dehinc & operâ Iosephi Langii meliore ordine dispositum, innumeris ferè apophthegmatis, similitudinibus, adagiis, exemplis, emblematis, hieroglyphicis, & mythologiis locupletatum, atque perillustratum.
Joseph Lang (c.1570-1615)
Category
Books
Date
1621
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3197937
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8] p., 3208 [i.e. 3206] columns, [1] p. ; fol. Running number: 5337. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "γ'." [i.e. gamma' = Greek number 3]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; spine has gilt fillets and gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Joseph Lang (c.1570-1615), editor Domenico Nani Mirabelli, author Bartolomaeus Amantius (1505 - 1576), author Franciscus Tortius, author Franciscus Sylvius (1614-1672), editor