Antiquitates Neomagenses. Sive Notitia rarissimarum rerum antiquarum, quas in veteri Batavorum oppido studiose comparavit Johannes Smetius, pater & filius. In qua annuli, gemmae, amuleta, claves, styli, tintinnabula, fibulae, lampades, arae, marmora, mensurae, pondera, statuae, sigilla, lagenae, vasa, atque alia antiquorum monumenta explicantur: & varia Romanorum numismata hactenus non visa illustrantur.
Smetius, Johannes
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Nijmegen
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3212783
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 283, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates (2 double leaves, 2 single) : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 6204. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "Luceo. Ex dono Authoris Noviomagi. Apr. 11/21. 1683" [i.e. the gift of the author Johannes Smetius (1636-1704)]. With manuscript marginal markings in pencil and annotations in black ink on pp. 23, 33, 43, 49, 70, 73, 81 and 99. Manuscript page reference on rear pastedown: "Gisbertus Cuper. 127". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn onto four sewing supports; manuscript title on spine. Blue sprinkled bookblock edges. Manuscript title "Smetius" on bottom edge of bookblock.
Makers and roles
Smetius, Johannes Smetius, Johannes