Aeneae Syluii Piccolominei senensis, qui post adeptum pontificatum pius eius nominis secundus appellatus est, Opera quae extant omnia, nunc demum post corruptissimas aeditiones summa diligentia castigata & in unum corpus redacta, quorum elenchum uersa pagella indicabit. His quoque accessit gnomologia ex omnibus Syluii operibus collecta, & index rerum ac uerborum omnium copiosissimus.
Pope Pius II (Enea (Aeneas) Silvio Piccolomini) (1405-1464)
Category
Books
Date
1571
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3197944
Summary
Bibliographic description
[124], 1086, [34] p. : maps ; fol. Running number: 5338. 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: "η'." [i.e. eta' = Greek number 8]. Manuscript code on front pastedown: "S/ T 236". Manuscript bibliographic notes with page references on front fly-leaf regarding a work of Pius II on the Turks printed in Basel by Johan Oporinus. Manuscript notes in same hand at foot of p. 962. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled mottled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt stamps, roll pattern, fillets and gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Pope Pius II (Enea (Aeneas) Silvio Piccolomini) (1405-1464), author Marcus Hopper (d.1564), editor Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561), author