Caroli Sigonii Pro consolatione Ciceronis orationes duae.
Carlo Sigonio (1524-1584)
Category
Books
Date
1584
Materials
Place of origin
Padua
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3202123
Summary
Bibliographic description
32 leaves ; 4to. Running number: 5677. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "Bibliothecae Colbertinae" [i.e. from the library of the great French bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1619-1683), Chief Minister to Louis XIV; written in the hand of his librarian, Étienne Baluze (1630-1718). Colbert’s library was dispersed at a sale in Paris, 24 May-21 October 1728, and at two sales in London (23 April 1729 and 17 November 1735)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain limp vellum; manuscript title on spine; spine cracked.
Makers and roles
Carlo Sigonio (1524-1584), author