Joannis Henrici Meibomii Maecenas, sive De C. Cilnii Maecenatis vita, moribus & rebus gestis, liber singularis. Accessit C. Pedonis Albinovani Maecenati scriptum epicedium, notis illustratum.
Meibom, Johann Heinrich
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3216443
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 186, [8], 11, [7] p. ; 4to. Running number: 7215. Front fly-leaf with silverfish damage. Provenance: manuscript price[?] on front pastedown: "1lt 10/". Manuscript number in pencil on front fly-leaf: "5". Manuscript code in pencil on verso of front fly-leaf: "C v-q/d-w". Manuscript inscription at head of title page: "Bibliotheca Colbertina. /" [i.e. from the library of the great French bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1619-1683), Chief Minister to Louis XIV. Probably written in the hand of his librarian, Étienne Baluze (1630-1718). 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 plain parchment; sewn onto three sewing supports; manuscript title on spine.
Makers and roles
Meibom, Johann Heinrich Albinovanus Pedo