Shelfmark
Fg.8.15
Main entry--uniform title
Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum.
Title
De agrorum conditionibus, & constitutionibus limitum, Siculi Flacci lib. I. Iulij Frontini lib. I. Aggeni Vrbici lib. II. Hygeni Gromatici lib. II. Variorum auctorum ordines finitionum. De iugeribus metiundis. Finium regundorum. Lex Mamilia. Coloniarum pop. Romani descriptio. Terminorum inscriptiones & formæ. De generibus lineamentorum. De mensuris & ponderibus. Omnia figuris illustrata.
Varying form of title
De agrorvm conditionibvs, & constitutionibus limitum
Varying form of title
De agrorum conditionibus, et constitutionibus limitum
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis, : Apud Adr. Turnebum typographum Regium., M.D.LIIII. [1554]
Physical description
[4], 256, [12], 20 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 4⁰.
Language
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Note
Edited by Pierre Galland and Adrien Turnèbe.
Note
"Veteris cuiusdam auctoris de generibus lineamentorum" (caption title; 20 p. at end) begins new pagination and register.
Note
Date of publication precedes printer statement on t.p.
Note
Colophon at foot of leaf c2v reads: Excudebatur Lutetiae Parisiorum VIII. Cal. Decembr. M.D.LIIII.
Note
Page 255 misnumbered 257.
Note
Signatures: *² A-Z⁴ AA-KK⁴ LL² a-b⁴ c².
Note
The plate is a half leaf woodcut bound between pages 134 and 135; numerous woodcut illustrations throughout text; woodcut head-pieces and initials.
Note
Errata on leaf LL2r.
Citation/references note
Adams, G147
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
18th-century brown calf quarter binding; marbled paper boards; three raised bands; black morocco spine label; ms. fore-edge title on tail edge "De agror[um] ..."
Copy-specific note
18th-century bookseller's price in pencil: -3-6.
Copy-specific note
On verso of front flyleaf in an 18th-century hand: "vide Gallandius".
Copy-specific note
Previously Ff.4.1.
Subject
Weights and measures Early works to 1800.
Subject
Surveying Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Turnèbe, Adrien, 1512 - 1565 printer.
Added entry--name
Hyginus, Gromaticus, Constitutio limitum.
Added entry--name
Frontinus, Sextus Julius. De agri mensura.
Added entry--name
Siculus Flaccus De condicionibus agrorum.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Turnèbe, Adrien, 1512 - 1565 editor.
Added entry--name
Galland, Pierre, 1510 - 1559 editor.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B34899