Shelfmark
Ff.5.01(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Apologia]
Title
L. ApuleI Madaurensis, philosophi Platonici Apologia, recognita, & nonnullis notis, ac obseruationibus illustrata a Ioanne Pricæo Anglo-Britanno. Accesserunt antiquitatum fragmenta quædam æri incisa..
Varying form of title
L. Apuleii Madaurensis, philosophi Platonici Apologia
Varying form of title
L. Apvleii Madavrensis, philosophi Platonici Apologia
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis, : Apud Simonem Feurier, ad primam columnam Magnæ Aulæ Palatij., M. DC. XXXV. [1635]
Physical description
[8], 115, [5]; 220, [32] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Language
Chiefly in Latin, with references and quotations in Greek.
Note
Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁴, ²A-2D⁴ 2E-2H², ²I², ²2H-2L².
Note
Blank leaf (²I2) between "Index authorum et voluminum" and "Rerum et verborum index".
Note
Errata on final leaf (2L2r).
Note
Illustrated with engravings, including a folded plate depicting Lucius transformed into a donkey.
Note
With printed marginalia.
Note
With woodcut title page vignette; head-pieces; initials.
Citation/references note
BM STC French 1601-1700, A-613
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Provenance
Ms. ownership inscription of J. Davies at head of title-page.
Binding
18th-century Cambridge style blind-panelled sprinkled calf binding; five raised bands; traces of spine-label.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the folded plate. Pages 59-62 folded at the fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Bound with a copy of: Aleandro, Girolamo. Antiquae tabulae marmoreae solis effigie, symbolisque exculptae accurata explicatio. Romae : Ex typographia Bartolomaei Zannetti, 1616.
Copy-specific note
Previously Da.5.17(01).
Subject
Subject
Trials (Witchcraft) Early works to 1800.
Subject
Magic Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Price, John, 1600 - 1676 editor.
Added entry--name
Fevrier, Simon printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B32570