Tobiae Magiri Eponymologium criticum, complectens cognomina, descriptiones, elogia et censuras personarum ac rerum cùm veterum tùm recentium bello aut pace insignium; ex variis scriptoribus collecta, nunc duplo quàm olim auctius editum cura Christiani Wilhelmi Eybenii.
Tobias Magirus (1586-1652)
Category
Books
Date
1687
Materials
Place of origin
Frankfurt an der Oder
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3225533
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 812 p. : port. (metal cut) ; 4to. Running number: 7755. Provenance: manuscript notes in scrawly eighteenth-century hand on front pastedown: list of authors (Andreas Ellingius, Ioan. Sambucius, Melleius, Joseph Scaliger, Claudius Verdeniis) followed by various references to Lipsius. Occasional manuscript marginal annotations in scrawly eighteenth-century hand in text, e.g. pp. 452, 631, 678, 692, 768. Binding: late seventeenth or eighteenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn on four vellum sewing supports; head of spine cracked, partially missing; manuscript title at head of spine; blue sprinkled textblock edges; remnants of paper title label with manuscript title pasted onto foot of rear pastedown.
Makers and roles
Tobias Magirus (1586-1652), author Eybenius, Christianus Wilhelmus, editor Romstet, Christian, engraver (printmaker)