Discorsi di M. Enea Vico Parmigiano, sopra le medaglie de gli antichi diuisi in due libri. Oue si dimostrano notabili errori di scrittori antichi, e moderni, intorno alle historie Romane. Con due tauole, l'vna de' capitoli; l'altra delle cose piu notabili. ...
Enea Vico (1523-1567)
Category
Books
Date
1555
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3212759
Summary
Bibliographic description
112, [16] p. : port. (copperplate) ; 4to. Running number: 6201. Imperfect: wanting portrait leaf *2. Provenance: manuscript code in red crayon or pencil on front pastedown: "[symbol = combination of "no." and #] 20.". Manuscript initial on 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: "ß½." [i.e. beta½ = Greek number 2½]. Manuscript inscriptions all in sixteenth-century hands on front fly-leaf: [1] in black ink "Agli ut di febraio, 1563"; [2] in black ink "Don Vincij[?] sabbia", added to at the beginning and end in reddish-brown ink in a different hand "Da SR: do" and "amé Annibal santinj donato"; [3] inscription totally blacked-out in ink; and [4] "No. 363". Binding: sixteenth or seventeenth-century full limp parchment; bookblock sewn onto three cords, attached to binding by sewn endbands only; fore-edges folded-over; pair of holes in fore-edges for ties (missing); strip of printed waste lines spine. Gauffered bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Enea Vico (1523-1567)