Petri Morestelli Trenorchiensis, artium liberalium magistri ac theologi, Philomusus, siue, De triplici anno Romanorum, mensibus, eorúmque partibus, déque die ciuili & diuersitate dierum, libri quinque. Ad nobilissimum, illustrissimúmque Antistitem Cyrum de Tyard, Christianissimi Galliarum & Nauarrae Regis consiliarium. Edentibus vescentium dentibus inuidet.
Pierre Morestel (1575-1658)
Category
Books
Date
1605
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3213138
Summary
Bibliographic description
174, [22] p. ; 4to. Running number: 6216. Provenance: armorial binding of Louis-Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698). Count Loménie de Brienne's library was sold in London in 1724, where Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) undoubtedly purchased it. 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: "ι'." [i.e. iota' = Greek number 10]. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; double and single gilt fillet border, with small roundel cornerpiece stamps; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp (with mermaid crest): arms of Louis-Henri de Lomenie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698); single gilt fillet along board edges; gilt floral roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with stamp, fillet and roll decoration, gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine. Red bookblock edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Pierre Morestel (1575-1658)