BEIN If M81 r516: From the libraries of Cuthbert Tunstall, Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No. 6 of 7 works bound together., BEIN Gfm83 b515: Early ms. annotations. Stamp: Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek.Blind stamped pigskin binding. No. 4 of 6 works bound together., Caption-title., Text in Greek., Signatures: pi² a-b⁴ [alpha]-[kappa]⁴., Imprint from colophon., Gourmont's device precedes colophon., Colophon: Lutetiae Parisiorum in aedibus Egidi Gourmonti .M.D.IX. pridie calen. Maij. virtute duce & comite fortuna., and Edited by Girolamo Aleandro.
Title devised by curator., Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, who included an impression of this print in his extra-illustrated copy of A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole., Horace Walpole kept an example of this medal in the rose-wood case in the Library at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 88 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Manuscript on paper (thick) of Macrobius, Saturnalia.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same style as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181, 182 for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi), with the first three probably by the same binder. Written in ink on tail edge: "MACROB". Two front parchment endleaves, presumably reused from the early binding given the patterns of rust stains and wormholes, consist of undated ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Cesena., Headings and some plain initials in red., Ink has corroded through many leaves; minor loss of text., Script: Copied in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified mountain; a dragon perhaps similar in design to those produced in Ferrara in 1440s-50s, cf. Piccard Drache II.538-72.
Manuscript on paper of a Lexicon Latino-Grecum. With an epigram of Hubertinus Clericus (Hubertinus de Crescentino), Professor of Rhetoric at Pavia and Milan.
Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae.
Description:
Binding: Middle Hill boards., Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Carolingian miniscule (Turonian script)., and Several leaves damaged with substantial loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,---419 or 420. and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Autograph.