De scriptorib[us] eccl[es]iasticis disertissimi viri Johannis de Tritte[n]hem Abbatis Spa[n]heme[n]sis de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis collectanea: additis no[n]nulloru[m] ex rece[n]tiorib[us] vitis & no[min]ibus: qui scriptis suis hac nostra te[m]pestate clariores euaserunt.
Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516)
Category
Books
Date
1512
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3233901
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], CCXX leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6876. Worm holes throughout. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Nineteenth-century pencil code on front endpaper: "B33". Binding: contemporary English binding (Oxford, ca. 1512-1520) of blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards; sewn onto three raised bands; double frame of blind thin thick thin fillets and continuous stem floral roll (cf. J.B. Oldham 'English Blind-Stamped Bindings', pl. XLIII, roll FL.a(3) 706) intersecting some way in from the corners; central panel divided by a saltire cross of thin thick thin fillets into four triangular compartments each containing a half-lattice stamp, possibly tools previously used by the Half-Stamp Binder (fl. 1491-1511) (cf. Oldham pl. XXV, nos. 306 and 310); originally with two pairs of clasps (lost), settings for clasps on upper board and rivet holes for catches on lower board; rebacked in tan calf; nineteenth-century endpapers; many worm holes in both boards. Pencil note in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge 1955".
Makers and roles
Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), author Johannes de Lapide (d.1496), editor Sebastian Brant (1458-1521), author Jean Petit (fl.1492-1530), printer and publisher Berthold Rembolt (d.1518), printer and publisher