Shelfmark
Fh.2.07
Author
Title
Chronicon historiam catholicam complectens, ab exordio mundi ad nativitatem D.N. Iesu Christi, et exinde ad annum à Christo nato LXXI. Ex Sacris Bibliis, caeterisque probatæ fidei auctoribus seriem historiarum omnis ævi secundum tempora digestarum Edwardus Simson. S.T.D. Collegii Sanctæ ac Individuæ Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigiensi quondam socius, contexuit, in septem parteis distributam: cum parasceve ad Chronicon Catholicum. Accessere Tabulæ chronologicæ. Stemmata quædam insigniora. Successiones regum, & Catalogus Olympionicarum. Additur in singulas chronici partes index alphabeticus.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Chronicon catholicum
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxoniæ. : Excudebant L[eonard]. L[ichfield]. and H[enry]. H[all]. Academiæ typographi. Veneunt apud Tho. Robinson., M.D.CLII. [1652]
Physical description
[16], 20, [4], 60, [8], 108 [i.e. 112], [12], 136, [12], 171 [i.e. 181], [11], 86, 89-192, [18], 94, [14], 4, 7-77 [i.e. 79], [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (port., add. engr. t.-pl.) ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Note
Printer's name from Wing CD.
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With additional engraved title page (plate): Chronicon catholicum contextum ab Edwardo Simsonio S. Th. Doct.
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With frontis. portrait (plate).
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With divisional title page on [paragraph 1] recto: Parasceve ad Chronicon catholicum.
Note
"Mosaica: sive Chronici historiam catholicam complectentis pars prima" (leaf D2 recto), "Basilica:, sive Chronici catholici pars tertia" (leaf ³A1 recto), "Macedonica: sive Chronici historiam catholicam complectentis pars quinta" (leaf ⁵A1 recto), "Mantissa: sive Chronici catholici pars septima" (leaf ⁷A1 recto) each have separate title page, with imprint "excudebat Hen: [or Hen.] Hall ... M.DC.LI.", separate pagination and register.
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"Heroica; sive Chronici catholici pars secunda" (leaf ²A1), "Persica: sive Chronici historiam catholicam complectentis pars quarta" (leaf ⁴A1 recto), "Romaica, sive Chronici catholici pars sexta" (leaf ⁶A1 recto) each have separate title page, with imprint "excudebat Leon. Lichfield ... M.D.C.L.I.", separate pagination and register.
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Signatures: A⁶ [paragraph]⁴ (-[paragraph]4) B-M⁴, ²A-P⁴ Q², ³A-Q⁴ R⁶ (R6 blank) S⁴ (S4 blank), ⁴A-Z⁴ Aa⁴, ⁵A-Z⁴ ²Aa⁴ *-**⁴ (**4 blank), ⁶A-N⁴ O², ⁷A-H⁴ I⁶ K².
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Imprint date printed using turned c's.
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Woodcut printer's device on title page, with the University crest and motto: 'Oxoniensis academia'.
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Title and text within simple lined letterpress border; main body of text printed in double columns.
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Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), S3849
Citation/references note
ESTC, R7735
Citation/references note
Madan, III, 2206
Provenance
Engraved circular armorial bookplate of Eton College at foot of frontispiece portrait.
Binding
17th-century brown calf; three blind fillets to form a border; five raised bands; remains of paper spine label and earlier lozenge-shaped shelf label in form "74"; printer's waste flyleaves and guards.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Dp.3.10.
Subject
History, Ancient Chronology.
Subject
History, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Printed waste.
Added entry--name
Hall, Henry, active 1642 - 1680 printer.
Added entry--name
Lichfield, Leonard, ? - d.1657 printer.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Mantissa: sive Chronici catholici pars septima.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Romaica, sive Chronici catholici pars sexta.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Macedonica: sive Chronici historiam catholicam complectentis pars quinta.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Persica: sive Chronici historiam catholicam complectentis pars quarta.
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Basilica:, sive Chronici catholici pars tertia.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Heroica; sive Chronici catholici pars secunda.
Added Entry-Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title
Mosaica: sive Chronici historiam catholicam complectentis pars prima.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B35303