Olympiae Fuluiae Moratae, foeminae doctissimae, ac planè diuinae, Opera omnia cum eruditorum testimonijs. Quibus, praeter C.S.C. epistolas selectas & orationes: nunc demum accesserunt M. Antonij Paganutij Fabulae ex Aesopo Latinè factae, & Ioannis Boccacij quaedam ex Italico.
Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526-1555)
Category
Books
Date
1580
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3215316
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 551, [1] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7179. Water-staining throughout. Lower corner of title page torn off. Leaves **4 and **3 mis-bound at end following Mm1 (p. 546). Provenance: manuscript initial and inscription on front fly-leaf: "M." and "After p. 546. the sheet is wrong folded" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "α5/6" [i.e. alpha 5/6]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Johannes Gualteri". Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "0-6-". Some manuscript underscoring of text. Manuscript contents list "Olympiae Fulviae Moralae carmina" on rear fly-leaf. Manuscript inscription on rear pastedown: "5 Xber 1725 kost n-r". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum (water-stained) over boards; sewn onto three cords; yapp fore-edges; two pairs of holes for ties (missing) in fore-edges of covers; spine cracked, partially missing; manuscript title (very faded) on spine. Manuscript title on fore-edge of textblock.
Makers and roles
Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526-1555) Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Celio Secondo Curione (1503-1569) Marcus Antonius Paganutius