Funerali antichi di diuersi popoli, et nationi; forma, ordine, et pompa di sepolture, di essequie, di consecrationi antiche et d'altro, descritti in dialogo da Thomaso Porcacchj da Castiglione Arretino. Con le figure in Rome di Girolamo Porro Padouano.
Thomaso Porcacchi (c.1530-1585?)
Category
Books
Date
1574
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3208990
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 109, [3] p. : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 5978. Worm damage from front cover through to leaf D3, and from leaf M3 through to rear board. Leaves a3-4 water-stained. Provenance: 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 at foot of front fly-leaf facing title page: "bis. v. 36. Geom. f.". Manuscript inscription on rear pastedown: "hock". Binding: seventeenth-century rough vellum over boards; sewn on three supports; yapp fore-edges; spine cracked, partially missing. Pale yellow edges.
Makers and roles
Thomaso Porcacchi (c.1530-1585?) Girolamo Porro (1520-1604)