Monumenta Patauina Sertorii Vrsati studio collecta, digesta, explicata, suisque iconibus expressa. Ad serenissimum Principem & augustiss. Senatum Venetum.
Count Sertorio Orsato (1617-1678)
Category
Books
Date
1652
Materials
Place of origin
Padua
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3214737
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 352, [32] p. : ill., port. ; fol. Running number: 6265. Provenance: acquired by Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) at the Uilenbroek sale, Amsterdam, in 1729 (lot 810) for "12.0." (presumably Dutch gulden and stuivers). Manuscript codes on front pastedown: " -5-5 AB [illegible] 1672" and "No: 48". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf (rubbed); sewn onto six sewing supports with six raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with stamp, roll and fillet decoration; gilt title lettered directly onto spine. Red and brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Count Sertorio Orsato (1617-1678), author Lucas Holstenius (1596-1661), author Giovanni Georgi (1617-1656), engraver (printmaker)