Conradi Gesneri Tigurini medicinae et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiae animalium lib. V. qui est de serpentium natura. Ex variis schedis et collectaneis eiusdem compositus per Iacobum Carronum Francofurtensem. Adiecta est ad calcem, scorpionis insecti historia à D. Casparo Vuolphio Tigurino medico, ex eiusdem paralipomenis conscripta. Accesserunt indices nominum serpentium secundum diuersas linguas: & ante illos enumeratio eo ordine quo in hoc volmine continentur.
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1587
Materials
Place of origin
Zurich
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3204474
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], 85, [1]; 11, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; fol. Running number: 5855. Provenance: armorial binding of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh (1520-1598). 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 marginal annotation in sixteenth-century hand and ink-stain on leaf 22. Binding: sixteenth-century full blind-panelled calf (rubbed, large scratch on upper cover); thin thick thin fillet border; panel of thin thick thin fillets with floral cornerpiece stamps; armorial centrepiece stamp of the arms of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burleigh (British Armorial Bindings, stamp 2); blind-tooled spine; foot of spine missing. Brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) Jacob Carronus Hans Kaspar Wolf (1532 - 1601)