Suffridi Petri Leouardiensis Frisij Orationes quinque, de multiplici vtilitate linguae Graecae. Inseruntur autem, praeter caetera, de optima studiorum ratione, & imitatione, quaedam, & alia lectu dignissima.
Suffridus Petri (1527-1597)
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3201821
Summary
Bibliographic description
342, [34] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5634. Provenance: armorial bookplate on front pastedown: argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules, with helm and mantling, text '.L. E. Bigot.' and engraver's monogram 'BD' [i.e. Louis Emery Bigot (1626-1689), of Rouen, literary scholar and bibliophile. The Bigot family library was sold in Paris in 1706]. Manuscript auction catalogue inscription and lot number on front pastedown: "E. 10. ...[illegible] 5. Jul. vi. No. 4214". 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 price[?] on front fly-leaf: "-2-". Manuscript price[?] on rear fly-leaf: "10s". Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; gold-tooled spine, with the arms of the Bigot family and gilt title. Red and blue mottled edges.
Makers and roles
Suffridus Petri (1527-1597) Willem Canter (1542 - 1575)