Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum: gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, insularum, locorum, civitatum, aequorum, fluviorum, sinuum, portuum, promontoriorum ac montium, antiqua recentioráque, ad sacras & profanas historias, poetarumque fabulas intelligendas necessaria, nomina, quo decet ordine, complectens & illustrans. Opus admodum utile & apprime necessarium. A Carolo Stephano inchoatum. Ad incudem verò revocatum, innumerisque penè locis auctum & emaculatum per Nicolaum Lloydium, Collegii Wadhami in celeberrimâ academiâ Oxoniensis socium. Editio novissima. In qua historico-poetica & geographica seorsim sunt alphabeticè digesta; et liber totus tum emendationibus, tum additamentis (recentioribus tredecim annorum ipsius Lloydii elucubrationibus, manûque ultimâ) ita adornatur, ut novus ac planè alius videri possit. Cui accessit index geographicus, ubi hodierna & vernacula locorum nomina antiquis & Latinis praeponuntur.
Charles Estienne (1504-1564)
Category
Books
Date
1686
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3230279
Summary
Bibliographic description
[732] p. ; fol. Running number: 7870. Provenance: manuscript initials or code on front fly-leaf: "ML". Manuscript inscription, presumably a former owner's initials, at head of dedication on leaf A1r: "Hs Hs. 1694.". Binding: eighteenth-century full Cambridge-style blind-panelled plain and sprinkled calf (rubbed); sewn on five sewing supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; blind fillet decoration on spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine; red sprinkled textblock edges. Head of spine missing; hinges cracked at head and tail on front board.
Makers and roles
Charles Estienne (1504-1564), author Nicholas Lloyd (1630-1680), editor