Vlyssis Aldrouandi patricii Bononiensis Serpentum, et draconu[m] historiae libri duo Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... summo labore opus concinnauit. ... Cum indice memorabilium, nec non uariaru[m] linguaru[m] locupletissimo.
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605)
Category
Books
Date
1640
Materials
Place of origin
Bologna
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3202555
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 427, [33] p. : ill. (woodcut) ; fol. Running number: 5701. Shelved as vol. 6 and uniform as a set with vols. 1-5 and 7-12 of other works by Aldrovandi. Provenance: manuscript former Newbattle Abbey shelfmark, crossed-out, on front pastedown: "K 5 2". Manuscript former Newbattle Abbey shelfmark on front fly-leaf: "C.5.7.". This set of 12 volumes was moved to Blickling Hall in 1832 from the great library at Newbattle Abbey, the principal Scottish seat of the Marquesses of Lothian. Early or Jaocbean armorial bookplate (not listed in Franks) on front pastedown: anonymous, arms of the Marquess of Lothian [presumably William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661-1722)]. Early armorial bookplate (Franks 17069 or *558) on verso of half-title: 'The Most Honble. William Marquiss of Lothian' [i.e. William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian (1661-1722)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf (rubbed, very worn); sewn on six supports; gilt double fillet border, with dashed roll pattern between the fillets in some parts; seven panels on spine, five with gilt fillet panel with gilt stamp in the centre, one panel with gilt title 'Aldrovan Hist. nat.' on brown calf label, and one panel with gilt vol. number 'Vol. VI.' on gold-tooled brown calf label. Head of spine and foot of front cover repaired in calf. Red edges.
Makers and roles
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605) Bartolommeo Ambrosini (1588 - 1657) Giovanni Battista Coriolano (d. Bologna 1649)