Monumenta sepulcrorum cum epigraphis ingenio et doctrina excellentium virorum: aliorumq[ue]. tam prisci quam nostri seculi memorabilium hominum: de archetypis expressa. Ex liberalitate nob. et clariss. viri d. Sigefridi Rybisch &c. Caesari Consiliarii. Per Tobiam Fendt, pictorem & ciuem Vratislauiensem, in aes incisa et aedita.
Tobias Fendt (1520/30 - Wroclaw 1576)
Category
Books
Date
1574
Materials
Place of origin
Wroclaw
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3214790
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12] p., 125 [i.e. 129] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (engr.) ; fol. Running number: 6274. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 125. Tabb." [i.e. catalogue code and plate count, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript code or old shelfmark on verso of third front fly-leaf facing the title page: "12 G. 5. M.". Manuscript inscription at foot of title page, the first letter of which is illegible: "[D?]udrae". Signature marks added in manuscript to the plates on first leaf in each gathering of six: b-v6 x3. Binding: seventeenth-century full limp parchment; sewn onto five sewing supports; holes in fore-edges of covers for two pairs of ties (missing); head of spine cracked, partially missing; manuscript title on spine: "Sepulcrorum".
Makers and roles
Tobias Fendt (1520/30 - Wroclaw 1576), author Scharffenberg, Crispin, printer Tobias Fendt (1520/30 - Wroclaw 1576), illustrator