Shelfmark
Ft.6.17(03)
Author
Title
[Fasti. Tristia. Ex Ponto. Cl. Ptolemaeus in inerrantium stellarum significationes.]
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Basel? : s.n. ca. 1550?]
Physical description
[2+], 3-506+ [i.e. 406+] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
Description based on imperfect copy; one or more preliminary leaves (including title page) and all after p. 506 wanting.
Note
Signatures (inferred from incomplete copy): A-BB⁸ CC⁴.
Note
Numbers 241-340 omitted in pagination; text and register continuous.
Note
Woodcut initials; initial on p. 3 (sig. A2) has letter T, historiated with pair of lovers.
Provenance
Inscription on title page of first bound-with item: "Sum Georgij Krenckel"; inscription inside front cover: "Georgi[us] Krenckel".
Provenance
Inscription at foot of title of first bound-with item: "?Feggback".
Provenance
20th century bookplate of Eton College Library.
Binding
Mid-16th century German pigskin over wooden boards; blind-stamped panel formed by triple fillets with pineapple tool in central frame; floral and foliate tools in middle frame; roll with personified virtues "FIDES", "SPES", "IVSTITIA" and date "1548" in outer frame; brass catches with remains of alum-tawed strap; three raised bands; ms. spine title.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Varennius, Joannes. Syntaxis linguae Graecae, Basel: N. Brylinger, 1550; and: Lucian of Samosata. Dialogi coelestes, marini & inferni, Basel: J. Oporinus, 1551.
Subject
Latin poetry Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Catches.
Genre/Form
Wooden boards.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B41586