Thomae Linacri Britanni De emendata structura Latini sermonis libri sex. Emendatiores. Index copiosissimus in eosdem.
Thomas Linacre (1460-1524)
Category
Books
Date
1550
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3215131
Summary
Bibliographic description
404, [44] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7165. In this copy the colophon is on leaf E7r whilst leaf E8 is blank. 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 bibliographic and biographical inscription on Thomas Linacre in seventeenth or eighteenth-century hand on verso of third front fly-leaf facing title page: "Thomas Lynacrus Egregium Opus de Emendata structura Latini sermonis amicorum rogatu paulo ante mortem edidit - Obijt 7: Octob. 1524. Sepultus Divi Pauli - Composuit hunc in imitationem VI. librorum Laurentij Vallae Elegantiarum Latinae linguae, postquam Des. Erasmus recognôvit circiter 1512. Londine. Laurentius Valla moritur 1465". With occasional manuscript marginal annotations within the text, e.g. pp. 5, 32, 59. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto two sewing supports, with four raised bands on spine; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled psine, with fillet panels containing floral stamps; brown leather label with gilt title on spine. Dark green sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Linacre (1460-1524) Robert Estienne (1503-1559)