Della scienza chiamata cavalleresca libri tre.. Alla Santità di nostro signore Papa Clemente Undecimo.
Marchese Scipioni Maffei (1675-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1710
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257215
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],505,[7]p. ; 4to. Running number: 1369. Historic repair to leaf 2C2. Browning to some leaves. Uniformly bound with NT3077378. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript capital letter on front endleaf: "D" (found in in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Manuscript inscription on verso of third front endleaf: "Maffei" [i.e. title note for anonymous works entered by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys, in his catalogue of Elly's library]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards with double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; raised bands, gilt tooled spine with gilt title on leather label; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers; red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Marchese Scipioni Maffei (1675-1755), author