Details of provenance, owner, donor or other name
Mostyn; family
of Gloddaeth (Gloddaith) Hall, near Llandudno, Gwynedd; perhaps to be identified with either Sir Thomas Mostyn, 2nd Bt (1651-1692); or Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Bt (1704-1758), both book collectors and bibliophiles; see Lord Mostyn and T. A. Glenn, History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London, 1925), 112, 155, 171; Daniel Huws, `Sir Thomas Mostyn and the Mostyn Manuscripts', in Books and Collectors 1200-1700: Essays Presented to Andrew Watson, ed. James P. Carley and Colin G. C. Tite (London, 1997), 451-72, with a reference to the sales of Mostyn printed books at 469 n.5; Catalogue of Valuable English and Foreign Books and Manuscripts (London: Sotheby, €Wilkinson and Hodge, 31 May 1907); for the sales see: Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, the Property of Lord Mostyn (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 16 Apr. 1920) [apparently sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books only]; The Mostyn Hall Library Printed Books and Manuscripts: Part 1: A–D (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, 9 Oct. 1974); ... Part 2: E–O (Christie's, 16 Oct. 1974); ... Part 3: P–Z (Christie's, 23 Oct. 1974).
♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century.
1 entry:
- A-291(1) Angelus de Clavasio — Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. — Rouen: Jean Le Bourgeois, 30 Jan. 1495. 4°.
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