Dissertationes selectae criticae de poëtis Graecis & Latinis, nempe Jac. Palmerii Kritikon epicheirēma pro Lucano contra Virgilium ex scriniis J. Berkelii, A. F. Ren. Rapini comparatio Homeri & Virgilii è Gallico in Latinum translata. D. Blondelli comparatio Pindari & Horatii. Jac. Tollii poëtarum Latinorum cum Graecis comparationes, nempe Pindari & Horatii, Theocriti & Virgilii, Apollonii & Ovidii, Petronii & Virgilii, Senecae & Sophoclis. Omnes simul recensuit & edidit Janus Berkelius, Abr. Fil.
Jan van Berkel (1675-1715)
Category
Books
Date
1707
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3199131
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36], 546, [2] p. : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5449. Provenance: armorial binding of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, Comte d’Hoym), book collector and ambassador in Paris of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Lot 4565 in Hoym library sale catalogue 'Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym ...' (Paris, 1738). Bought by Sir Richard Ellys but no price recorded in his priced copy of the sale catalogue. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century polished calf; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of the arms of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Boyet and Du Seuil were Hoym’s binders); gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with stamp and roll pattern decoration; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red sprinkled burnished edges. Swirl-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Jan van Berkel (1675-1715), editor Jacques Le Paulmier (1587-1670) David Blondel (1591-1655) Jakob Tollius (1630-1696) René Rapin (1621-1687)