Quae toto uolumine continentur. Pacis querela. De regno administrando. Institutio principis Christiani. Panegyricus ad Philippum & carmen. Item ex Plutarcho. De descrimine adulatoris & amici. De utilitate capienda ex inimicis. De doctrina principum. Principi cum philosopho semper esse disputandum. Item. Declamatio super mortuo puero.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1518
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3229348
Summary
Bibliographic description
222, [2] leaves ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6905. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "J. Mauger de Crecy. xxb.s." [possibly Jacques Mauger de Crécy (1657?-1746), Avocat au Parlement de Paris and priest at the Présbystère de Frétigny]. Manuscript prices[?] on front and rear pastedowns: "3tt-" and "6tt-". Binding: seventeenth- or eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on five supports; five raised bands; double and single gilt fillet border with small cornerpiece stamps; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Institut princip. Christia.' stamped on spine; red burnished textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), author Isocrates, author Plutarch, author Franciscus Asulanus (d.1546), editor Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer