De aliquot gentium migrationibus, sedibus fixis, reliquiis, linguarúmq[ue] initiis & immutationibus ac dialectis, libri XII. In quibus praeter caeteros populos, Francorum, Alemanorum, Sueuorum, Marcomanorum, Boiorum, Carnorum, Tauriscorum, Celtarumq[ue], atq[ue] Gallograecorum tribus, primordia & posteritas singulorum, quaeq[ue] ex his insigniores principum comitumq[ue], ac nobilitatis totius penè Germaniae, Latijq[ue] & Galliae stirpes processerunt, diligenti examine historiae, deniq[ue] autorum annaliumq[ue] cùm lectione tum collatione traduntur atq[ue] explicantur: Autore VVolfgango Lazio ...
Wolfgang Lazius (1514-1565)
Category
Books
Date
1572
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3211814
Summary
Bibliographic description
30, 35-597, 600-844, [30] p. : ill. (copper-plate), coats of arms, geneal. tables ; fol. Running number: 6143. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "R-H". Manuscript mark on recto of front free endpaper: "JR"[?]. Manuscript number (price?) in pencil on recto of front free endpaper: "10". Manuscript number in ink on verso of front free endpaper: "11". Manuscript inscription on rear fly-leaf: "J.W". Binding: seventeenth-century full parchment over pasteboards (rubbed, very worn, front and rear boards almost totally detached); sewn onto five leather cord sewing supports; both covers have a border and panel of blind thin thick thin fillets, the panel with gilt foliate cornerpiece stamps, and a decorative gilt strapwork and vine-stem centerpiece stamp; spine cracked, partially missing; five raised bands on spine; panels on spine have a repeated gilt foliate stamp.
Makers and roles
Wolfgang Lazius (1514-1565)