Pindarou, Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Meta exēgēseōs palaias panu ōphelimou, kai scholiōn homoiōn.
Pindar (Pindaros) (c.522-c.443 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1515
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3237522
Summary
Bibliographic description
[480] p. ; 4to. Running number: 6982. Provenance: from the library of the Amsterdam merchant Gosuinus Uilenbroek (1658-1740). Purchased by Sir Richard Ellys at the sale of the Uilenbroek library (Amsterdam, 1729), lot number 1689 (number written in pencil at foot of verso of front free endpaper). This lot is not marked-up in Ellys's copy of the sale catalogue, unlike the lot entries for other books he bought at the same sale. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: early eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled panelled dark blue morocco binding by the Art Book Bindery in Amsterdam (active 1705-1741) for Gosuinus Uilenbroek (1658-1740); sewn onto six supports; covers gold-tooled with zig-zag and foliate roll outer frame; inner double fillet frame with a foliate tool at the corners and a smaller foliate tool in the angles; centrepiece design of drawer-handle tools and foliate tools; gilt zig-zag and foliate roll pattern along board edges; spine gold-tooled with double fillet frame and outer dotted fillet and tooled to a centre and corner design with central tool of four circles and floral tools at the sides; roll pattern at head and tail and on the six raised bands; gold-tooled brown goatskin title label 'Pindarus Romae 1515' in second spine compartment; blue and brown mottled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Pindar (Pindaros) (c.522-c.443 BC), author Zacharias Kalliergēs (1499-1523), printer Cornelius Benignus (fl. 1515-1516), publisher