Johannis Lomeieri Ecclesiastae Zutphaniensis De bibliothecis liber singularis. Editio secunda, priori multò auctior, & addito rerum indice locupletior.
Johannes Lomeier (1636-1699)
Category
Books
Date
1680
Materials
Place of origin
Utrecht
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3224330
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 414, [22] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7659. 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)]. Long manuscript note (text copied from original letters) in late seventeenth-century or eighteenth-century hand on front fly-leaf relating to the purchase of the MSS. Barocci, the collection of Greek manuscripts formed by Francesco Barozzi (1537-1604) and Iacopo Barozzi (1562-1617), brought to England by Henry Featherstone in 1628, purchased by William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and presented to Oxford University in 1629. It begins: "That famous library of Giacomo Barocci a gentleman of Venice consisting of 242 Greek MS volumes is now bro't into England by Mr Fetherstone the stationer. Great pity it were if such a treasure shoud [sic] be dissipated & the books dispersed into private hands. ...". Manuscript list of authors in same seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand on rear fly-leaf. Manuscript codes and pencil scribbles on pastedowns. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Johannes Lomeier (1636-1699)