Historie cronologiche della vera origine di tutti gl'ordini equestri, e religioni cavalleresche, ... /. da Bernardo Giustiniano: doue si contengono tutte l'imprese, croci, stendardi, habiti, capitolari di ciaschedun'ordine, e religione.
Giustiniani, Bernardo, active1672
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3257475
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 439, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 4to. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Seventeenth-century(?) inscriptions: [1] on front pastedown: "135"; [2] on rear pastedown: "A.x" [bookseller's code?]. Binding: late seventeenth-century laced-case plain parchment over boards, extended at foredge; remains of paper labels at head of covers; 40% of spine lost; spine untooled with remains of manuscript title at head (illegible); sewn on four parchment supports; endbands; pastedown and endleaves; blue sprinkled leaf edges. In shoe box.
Makers and roles
Giustiniani, Bernardo, active1672 Piccini, Isabella, 1644-1734, engraver Lazzari, Giovanni Antonio, illustrator Combi, active 1643-1647, printer La Noù, Giovanni, printer