Etymologikon mega.
Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596)
Category
Books
Date
1594
Materials
Place of origin
Heidelberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3235202.2
Summary
Pt. 2 of book 'Etymologikon to mega. Ēgoun Hē megalē grammatikē' (Heidelberg, 1594).
Bibliographic description
Leaves S1 to ²V6 (columns 409-828, pages [2], 163, [1]) ; fol. One or two manuscript marginal notes in black ink, e.g. sig. Dd6v, and many ink blotches on the leaves. Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full sprinkled calf binding (very abraded and worn, surface leather almost totally gone, feels more like reversed calf now); recessed cords, smooth spine; double blind fillet border with additional quarter double blind fillet parallel to spine-edge, small blind cornerpiece stamps; double blind fillet along board edges; spine leather almost totally gone, revealing fabric spine lining; textblock edges stained blue. Stored in brown buckram book box. Typescript binder's note loose in box, signed and dated 'Nicholas Pickwoad May 1983'.
Makers and roles
Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), author