Iulii Caesaris Scaligeri viri clarissimi De sapientia et beatitudine libri octo, quos Epidorpides inscripsit.
Giulio Cesare Scaligero (1484-1558)
Category
Books
Date
1573
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3199178
Summary
Bibliographic description
260 p ; 8vo. Running number: 5450. 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)]. Manuscript verse[?] or notes in sixteenth-century[?] hand on rear fly-leaf: "Mundi ocule, Italiae sixus[?] praeclara ... Quam florem agnoscant vrbes ...". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with stamp and roll decoration within fillet panels; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Brown and red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Giulio Cesare Scaligero (1484-1558) Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609), author