Bibliotheca Sicula, sive De scriptoribus Siculis, qui tum vetera, tum recentiora saecula illustrarunt, notitiae locupletissimae; in quibus non solùm Siculorum auctorum, qui ad haec usque tempora scripserunt, codices excusi, vel manuscripti adnotantur; verùm etiam eorumdem patria, aetas, professio, munia, dignitates, memoranda, obitus, & epitaphia recensentur. Encomia it idem, quibus adhuc exteri scriptores Siculos auctores exornarunt, in lectorum gratiam indicantur: nonnulli scriptorum lapsus corriguntur: pluresque Siculi scriptores vel ab alienigenis provinciis usurpati, verae patriae restituuntur. Accessit apparatus praeliminaris operi praevius, complectens Sicanae historiae prospectum, disquisitiones de nomine Siciliae, Siculorum ingenio, & literis, & de computo Olympiadum. Auctore sac. theol. doctore Antonio Mongitore presbytero Panormitano. Tomus primus.
Antonio Mongitore (1663-1743)
Category
Books
Date
1707
Materials
Place of origin
Palermo
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3225279.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1. Running number: 7729. 108 p. at end of vol. 2 misbound at end of vol. 1; within that 108 p. sequence leaves ²T2-3 (p. 103-106) are wanting and cancel slip reading 'S. Pauli ad Arenulam' is pasted on line 10 in second column on leaf ²E3v (p. 38). Provenance: Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 22184) on front pastedown: 'Gabriel Odingsells' [i.e. Gabriel Odingsells (1690-1734), London playwright; hanged himself on 10 February 1734 at his house in Thatched Court, Westminster -- cf. ODNB]. Manuscript number in pencil beneath bookplate: "56". Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on front fly-leaf: "-10-6", with another price erased beneath it. Manuscript inscription in ink on front pastedown, erased. Manuscript bookseller's code on rear fly-leaf: "2. Vol. g-o".
Makers and roles
Antonio Mongitore (1663-1743)