Works
Horace (65 - 8 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1628
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3253308
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 parts in one ;. 14cm. Acquired by the National Trust with other former Dyrham books in April 2022. Surface binding leather is degraded; small hole in spine leather; pastedowns loose with cords visible. Provenance: former manuscript Dyrham Park shelfmark in black ink on front pastedown: 'B no-8'; manuscript exhibition label loose inside. Binding: seventeenth-century mottled brown leather over boards; sewn on four raised bands; red sprinkled edges; gold tooled board edges; gold tooling to spine, very worn.
Makers and roles
Horace (65 - 8 BC) Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655) Officina Elzeviriana (1593-1712)