Shelfmark
Fd.1.13
Author
Uniform title
[Naturalis historia]
Title
C. Plinii Secundi Historiae mundi libri XXXVII. Opus omni quidem commendatione maius, sed nullis ad hunc dfiem editionibus, nulla cuiusquam singulari vel opera, vel industra, à mendis, quæ aut temporum iniquitate, aut superiorum ætatum negligentia, inter Latinos primæ scriptorem hactenus occuparunt, satis vnquam purgatum: nunc vero, quanta potuit expectari fide, cura, diligentia, ex vetustissimorum excusorum & complurium codicum manuscriptorum attentissima collatione, & auctoritate, sic detersum ac emaculatum, vt ad pristinam eius integritatem & splendorem attulisse nostra hæ editio post alias omnes adiumenta sanè maxima iudicari meritò possit.
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Added title page title: Historiae mundi libri XXXVII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni, : apud Bartholomæum Honoratum, sub vase aureo., M. D. LXXXVII. [1587]
Physical description
[48], 901, [49], [170] p. ; Fo.
Note
Title continues: Accessere ad varias lectiones, quas multiplices in marginum spaciis tibi religiosissimè indicamus, & repræsentamus, castigationes & adnotationes eruditissimæ, quibus infinita Plinij loca cum Græcis & Latinis scriptoribus, illis præsertim, vnde pleraque omnia sua ille sumpsit, summa cum vtilitate conferuntur. Vnà cum indice totius operis copiosissimo, additamentis rursus non poenitendis aucto, locisque propemodum innumeris, quæ cum auctoris sensu non bene congruebant, accuratissimè correcto, & restituto. Omnia quidem multorum antehac doctorum hominum, nouissimè verò laboriosis obseruationibus conquisita, & solerti iudicio pensitata, Iacobi Dalecampii, medici, Cadomensis.
Note
Each chapter of text is followed by a group of "annotationes". The "Castigationes" by Gelen ([48] p.) are reprinted with their author's dedication dated 1535.
Note
Title-page printed in red and black.
Note
Includes index with its own title-page, dated 1586.
Note
Both t.p. have woodcut printer's device showing a handled vase, and the legend "Poco a poco", of two different designs.
Note
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, printed marginalia.
Note
Main text in a single column; footnotes in double columns.
Citation/references note
Adams, P1582
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Contemporary English light brown calf; blind tooled concentric frames of decorative rolls (outer frame, Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Books, 839; inner frame, Oldham EBSB, 942); silver tooled centrepiece of Eton College arms; remains of bookclasps and chain; wooden boards; blind tooled double fillet on spine; brown morocco spine label with gold tooled letters and triple fillet; later patches of brown calf at head and tail of spine; six raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Cg.1.1 and Ef.2.10.
Subject
Subject
Natural history Early works to 1800.
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Added entry--place
France Lyon
Identifier
B28410