Synopsis mensurarum et ponderum, ponderationisque mensurabilium secundum Romanos, Athenienses, geōrgous, kai hippoiatrous, ex praestantissimis authoribus huius generis co[n]tracta, opera Michaelis Neandri ex Valle Ioachimica, anno M D LIIII. Accesserunt etiam, quae apud Galenum hactenus extabant de ponderum & mensurarum ratione uehementer deprauata, nunc Graecè & Latinè multo correctiora eiusdem Michaelis Neandri opera. Item rerum & uerborum in his omnibus memorabilium index.
Michael Neander (b.1529)
Category
Books
Date
1555
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3210449
Summary
Bibliographic description
107, [13] p. ; 4to. Running number: 6071. 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 price in red pencil on front fly-leaf: "0-5-6". Manuscript number on verso of front free endpaper: "863". Manuscript inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "S. H. ant.". manuscript inscription at head of title page: "Bibliothecae Colbertinae 10252" [i.e. from the library of the great French bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1619-1683), Chief Minister to Louis XIV; written in the hand of his librarian, Étienne Baluze (1630-1718). Colbert’s library was dispersed at a sale in Paris, 24 May-21 October 1728, and at two sales in London (23 April 1729 and 17 November 1735)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title label on spine. Red stained edges. Nonpareil marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Michael Neander (b.1529) Galen (c.130 - c.201)