LilI GregorI Gyraldi Ferrariensis Opera omnia duobus tomis distincta, complectentia historiam de deis gentium, Musis et Hercule, rem nauticam, sepulcralia, et varios sepeliendi ritus, historiam poetarum Graecorum et Latinorum, kalendarium Romanum et Graecum cum libello de annis, mensibus, ac insuper alia: quae omnia partim tabulis aeneis & nummis, partim commentario Joannis Faes, et animadversionibus hactenus ineditis Pauli ColomesI, nec non indicibus emendatioribus ac locupletioribus illustrata exhibet Joannes Jensius. ...
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3211815
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([22] p., 676 columns, [4] p., 685-772, [26] p., [9] leaves of plates (2 double leaves, 5 single); [4], 928 columns, p. 929, [31] p., [2] leaves of plates) : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6142. Bound in 1 vol. Provenance: manuscript price[?] on front fly-leaf: "1..12 -". Manuscript inscription on rear pastedown: "1725 gber 7 kost V-n-m[?]". Binding: original[?] late seventeenth-century full blind-tooled vellum over boards (upper board detached); sewn onto six sewing supports; both covers have a double blind fillet border mitered at the corners with double blind fillets to a frame of double blind fillets, and a large blind decorative strapwork centerpiece stamp; spine mostly missing, only remnants of original vellum and gilt title remain but original canvas spine lining fabric and spine lining paper are still present. Red and blue sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552), author Johann Faes (1646-1712), editor Paul Colomiès (1638-1692), editor Johannes Jens (1671-1755), editor Johannes van den Aveele (d.1727), engraver (printmaker) François Boitard (1670-1715), artist