Shelfmark
Fg.8.11
Author
Uniform title
[De chorographia]
Title
Pomponii Melæ Libri tres de situ orbis, nummis antiquis & notis illustrati ab Jacobo Gronovio. Julii Honorii oratoris Excerpta cosmographiæ ab eodem nunc primum ex MS. edita. Cosmographia, falso Æthicum auctorem præferens, cum variis lectionibus e MS. Ravennas geographus ex MS. Lugdunensi suppletus.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De situ orbis
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Libri tres de situ orbis
Varying form of title
Pomponii Melae Libri tres de situ orbis
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugd. Batavorum. : Apud Jordanum Luchtmans, 1696.
Physical description
[28], 93, [29], 67, [1], 112, 128, [10] p. : ill. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
"Julii Honorii oratoris Excerpta quae ad cosmographiam pertinent", "Ravennatis anonymi qui circa saeculum VII. vixit Geographiae libri quinque" and "Jacobi Gronovii Notae in Pomponium Melam" each have divisional half-title and begin new pagination; register continuous throughout.
Note
Signatures: *-2*⁸ (-2*7,8) A-2D⁸ 2E⁴ (2E3-4 blank).
Note
"Cosmographia" is attributed to Aethicus Ister in LC NAF.
Note
Engraved vignette (device?) with motto "Batavia victrix felixq[ue] mare adserens pacem fundans humano sanguini parcens" on t.p.
Note
Engraved illustrations; woodcut initials.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751; with the text of Mela carefully collated and noted in his hand.
Binding
Late 17th/early 18th-century brown mottled calf; blind-tooled panels with outer corner fleurons; blind double fillet to form a border.; four raised bands; red morocco spine label.
Copy-specific note
Lacking the two final blank leaves.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fk.6.08.
Subject
Geography, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Luchtmans, Jordaan, 1652 - 1708 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Gronovius, Jacobus, 1645 - 1716 editor.
Added entry--name
Aethicus Ister. Cosmographia.
Added entry--name
Honorius, Julius Excerpta.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B34855