Creator
Thomas Browne
Title
Certain miscellany tacts
Coverage
London
Publisher
Charles Mearne
Date
1684
Description
The pleasures of Thomas Browne are well known, but his Biblioteca Abscondita—a list of “rare and generally unknown” books lost from antiquity is a special one for me. It includes the lost Getic poem of Ovid (on whose work I wrote my master’s thesis) as well as “Noble Head of Franciscus Gonzaga” bearing the inscription O nox quam longa est quae facit una senem, which an annotator has noted is a line from Martial’s Epigrams.
Source
From the collection of Rhiannon Knol