Ōrou Apollōnos Neilōou Hieroglyphika. = Ori Apollinis Niliaci, De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo, vbi ad fidem vetusti codicis manu scripti restituta sunt loca permulta, corrupta ante ac deplorata. Quibus accessit uersio recens, per Io. Mercerum Vtice[n]sem concinnata, & obseruationes non infrugiferae.
Horapollo (5th century)
Category
Books
Date
1551
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3221080
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 240, [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 8vo. Running number: 7354. Water staining throughout. Provenance: small book number label on verso of front fly-leaf: "K" [in manuscript red ink] / "179" [in manuscript black ink]. These inventory or shelfmark labels are characteristic of books from the library of Louis-Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698). Count Loménie de Brienne's library was sold in London in 1724, where Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) undoubtedly purchased it. Manuscript code in red pencil on front turn-in of vellum binding. Manuscript waste used in binding has manuscript date on blank reverse: "1570 9 s". Manuscript price[?] on rear turn-in: "3tt" [i.e. 3 livres tournois?]. Binding: sixteenth-century limp vellum (badly stained); sewn on four tawed leather thongs; fore-edges folded over; two pairs of holes in fore-edges for tawed leather ties (missing, stubs remain); manuscript title or shelfmark on spine (faded and illegible); half-sheet of vellum waste lines the spine containing manuscript text in Latin in sixteenth-century hand, complete with signature "G Honbret"[?].
Makers and roles
Horapollo (5th century) Philippos Jean Mercier (d.1570 Cousin, Jean Jean Goujon (c.1510 - c.1565)