Polymathiae siue Variae antiquae eruditionis libri duo in quibus ritus antiqui Romani externi qua sacri qua profani qua publici qua privati sacrificiorum, nuptiarum, comitiorum, conuiuiorum, fori, theatri, militiae, triumphi, funeris, & huiusmodi, è philosophiae, politiae, philologiae adytis eruuntur. Prouerbijs, historijs, rebusq[ue] criticis illustrati enucleantur. Cum indicibus locupletissimis auctore Iosepho Lauerentio Lucensi. S.T.D.
Giuseppe Laurenzi (b.1583)
Category
Books
Date
1631 - 1632
Materials
Place of origin
Vicenza
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3210249
Summary
Bibliographic description
[44], 214, [6], 217-483, [65] p. ; 4to. Running number: 6063. Without additional engraved title page. Wanting blank leaf Dd4. Provenance: manuscript code letter and number on first front fly-leaf: "u" [underlined] and "30". Manuscript initial on second front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of 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]. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf (front board detached); sewn onto four leather cords; double blind fillet border; single gilt fillets along board edges; four raised bands; blind fillets at head and foor of spine and along raised bands. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Giuseppe Laurenzi (b.1583)