Q. Aureli Symmachi V.C.P.U. & Cos. Ord. Epistolarum libri decem, cum Ambrosii nonnullis.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340-402 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3200948
Summary
Bibliographic description
461, [3] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 5556. Imperfect: wanting leaves A6-9 (i.e. p. 11-18); foot of title page torn off. 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 inscription on title page: "Tho Gery[?]". With manuscript marginal markings and underscoring of text on p. 19-65. Manuscript codes on front fly-leaf and inside rear board. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled calf; blind double fillet border; blind dotted roll pattern panel with blind floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt dotted roll pattern along board edges; recessed cords; blind double fillet panel along length of spine with blind floral stamps at head and foot; gilt title on tan leather label on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340-402 AD) Saint Ambrose, (c.339 - 397), Bishop of Milan