Dissertatio de ortu et interitu imperii Romani, qua examinatur nobilis illa, ut eam vocat merito summus Grotius, cum apud historicos, tum etiam JCtos tractata quaestio, an ea, quae olim fuerint Romani imperii, jam sint Germanici regni, propter translationem imperii Romani in Carolum M. factam; vel an nulla translatio ejusmodi facta, sed, populo Romano eodem hodie, qui olim fuit, penes eundem quoque imperium mansisse dicendum, tanquam penes corpus, in quo esset ac viveret. Auctore G. Vandermuelen, D. d'Oudbrouckhuysen &c.
Gerardus van der Meulen (b.1638)
Category
Books
Date
1698
Materials
Place of origin
Utrecht
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3208744
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 276 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 6046. Provenance: manuscript initial and inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. One plate marked 197. is placed at p. 186" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "β'." [i.e. beta' = Greek number 2]. Manuscript code on front pastedown: "u" [underlined]. Binding: late seventeenth-century full mottled calf; double blind fillet border; gilt zig-zag roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled egdes.
Makers and roles
Gerardus van der Meulen (b.1638), author Jan Goeree (Middelburg 1670 - Amsterdam 1731), artist Jan Van Vianen (b. ca. 1660), engraver (printmaker)