M. Aurelij Olympij Nemesiani Cathaginiensis. T. Calphurnij Siculi Bucolica. Nuper à situ, & squallore vindicata, nouisq[ue] commentarijs exposita opera, ac studio Roberti Titij Burgensis. Ad Lucam Turrigianium patritium Florentinum.
Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (fl.283 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1590
Materials
Place of origin
Florence
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3215800
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 206, [2] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7205. Water-staining throughout. Provenance: manuscript number on front free endpaper: "07.6.". Manuscript inscription at head of title page, washed-out or erased and barely visible with ultraviolet torch: "Bibliothecae Colbertinae" [i.e. from the library of the great French bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1619-1683), Chief Minister to Louis XIV. Colbert’s library was dispersed at a sale in Paris, 24 May-21 October 1728, and at two sales in London (23 April 1729 and 17 November 1735)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full mottled calf (delaminated on both covers); sewn onto three supports with five raised bands; double blind fillet border with blind roll pattern along spine-edge; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (fl.283 AD) Titus Calpurnius Siculus Martelli, Ugolino Roberto Titi (1551-1609)