C. Plinii Secundi Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII.
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1635
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3237181.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 1: [24], 654, [18] p. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front endpaper: "Su[u]m Philippi Wissae[?]ri Anno 1653". Manuscript code on front pastedown: "G/4". Former Felbrigg shelfmark: Z1 (in pencil, crossed out). Binding: seventeenth-century plain parchment over boards; sewn on three parchment slips; fore-edges of covers folded over; manuscript title and vol. number on spine, with evidence of lozenge-shape paper label (missing); blue sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), author Joannes de Laet (1581-1649), editor