Familiae Romanae quae reperiuntur in antiquis numismatibus ab urbe condita ad tempora diui Augusti ex bibliotheca Fului Vrsini adiunctis familiis XXX ex libro Antoni Augustini Ep. Ilerdensis.
Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600)
Category
Books
Date
1577
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3209785
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 296, [1], 294-403, [13] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; fol. Running number: 6014. Final leaf Rr6 cut out and mounted on blank leaf. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of title page, partially cropped by binder: "minimi Roberti comites de Linds[?]...[cropped]", with manuscript date in a different hand: "1702". Binding: eighteenth-century full red goatskin; sewn onto six raised bands; elaborate gold-tooled border with an outer floral roll between two sets of triple fillets and in inner roll pattern; gilt floral roll pattern along board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with fillets, rolls and stamps; gilt title on brown (once green?) goatskin label on spine. All edges gilt. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600), author Antonio Agustín, (1517 - 1586), Archbishop of Tarragona, author