Martini Hankii De Byzantinarum rerum scriptoribus Graecis liber. Autorum quinquaginta, qui de Constantinopolitanis aliisq[ue] tam civilibus, qvam ecclesiasticis antiqvitatibus monumenta nobis reliqverunt, vitas, scripta, de scriptis judicia distinctiorem in modum recenset. Accesserunt sex indices.
Martin Hanke (1633-1709)
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
Leipzig
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3229628
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 686, [130] p. : ill. (port.) ; 4to. Running number: 7842. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece portrait. Water-staining on lower right corner of leaves throughout. Provenance: manuscript initial on third front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript bibliographical notes and references in scrawly eighteenth-century hand (not Ellys's or Mitchell's but common enough in Blickling's books) on first front fly-leaf. Manuscript bookseller's[?] code on rear pastedown. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf (front board almost entirely detached); sewn onto four sewing supports; four raised bands; double blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Martin Hanke (1633-1709), author Georg Andreas Wolfgang (1631 - 1716), engraver (printmaker)