Kitāb al-amthāl = Prouerbiorum Arabicorum centuriae duae, ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectae & explicatae: cum interpretatione Latina & scholiis Iosephi Scaligeri I. Caes. F. et Thomae Erpenii.
Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624)
Category
Books
Date
1623
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3214813
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 134, [2] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7114. 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 code "w/9" and price in pencil (scribbled over in ink) on front fly-leaf. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; sewn onto three recessed cords; covers have blind double fillet border with an additional blind double fillet parallel to spine-edge; gilt dash roll pattern along board edges; flat spine; blind fillets across spine. Red and blue sprinkled textblock edges. Marbled pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614)