Joannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis Hieroglyphica, sive De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis, commentariorum libri LVIII. duobus aliis ab eruditissimo viro annexis. Accesserunt loco auctarii, hieroglyphicorum collectanea ex veteribus & recentioribus auctoribus descripta, & in sex libros ordine alphabetico digesta; item Horapollinis Hieroglyphicorum libri duo ex postrema Davidis Hoeschelii correctione. Praeterea ejusdem Pierii declamatiuncula Pro barbis sacerdotum; De infelicitate literatorum libri duo; denique Antiquitatum Bellunensium sermones quatuor. Editio ad novissimas Germaniae composita, quibus & annotationes ad marginem atque necessarios indices debet.
Giovanni Pierio Valeriano Bolzani (1477-1560)
Category
Books
Date
1678
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt am Main
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3214723
Summary
Bibliographic description
Editio ad novissimas Germaniae composita, quibus & annotationes ad marginem atque necessarios indices debet. [68], 760, [56]; 248, [8], 123, [1] p. : ill., port. ; 4to. Running number: 6257. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf, scribbled over in ink. Manuscript code on front pastedown: "c/r". Manuscript code on rear fly-leaf: "bfh". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled vellum; sewn onto five supports, with five raised bands; covers have a double blind fillet border mitred at the corners to an inner panel of single blind fillets and a blind decorative centrepiece stamp (flowers on a dotted background with monogram 'DM'); blind-tooled decoration at head and tail on spine and along raised bands; spine cracked at head, partially missing. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Pierio Valeriano Bolzani (1477-1560), author Horapollo (5th century), author Curione, Celio Augustino, author Antoine Du Verdier (1544-1600), author Kirchner, Christian, editor David Hoeschel (1556-1617), editor Kirchner, Christian, publisher