Shelfmark
Gc.1.01
Author
Uniform title
[Index Britanniae scriptorum]
Title
Scriptorum illustriu[m] Maioris Brytanni[a]e, quam nunc Angliam & Scotiam uocant: catalogus: à Iapheto per 3618 annos, usq[ue] ad annu[m] hunc Domini 1557. ex Beroso, Gennadio, Beda, Honorio, Bostono Buriensi, Frumentario, Capgrauo, Bostio, Burello, Trissa, Tritemio, Gesnero, Ioanne Lelando, atq[ue] alijs authoribus collectus, & IX centurias continens: in quo antiquitates, origines, annales, loca, successus, celebrioraq́[ue] cuiusq[ue] scriptoris facta, dicta, consilia, scripta, obitus, & alia scitu non indigna recensentur, recta ubiq[ue] annoru[m] supputatione seruata: ut inde tam reproborum, quàm electorum ecclesiae ministroru[m] facta, mysterijs in S. Ioannis Apocalypsi descriptis, in stellis, angelis, equis, tubis, tonitruis, capitibus, coronis, montibus, phialis ac plagis, per aetates eiusdem ecclesiae singulas, historicè & aptè respondeant: autore Ioanne Baleo Sudouolgio Anglo, Ossoriensi apud Hybernos iampridem Episcopo, nunc apud Germanos pro Christi professione peregrino. Accedunt his, appendices, unà cum actis Romanorum Pontificum, quae eorum adulatores, Carsulanus, Platina, Stella, & similes omiserunt. Accedunt & filiorum, monachorum suorum facta: praecipuè fraterculoru[m] Mendicantium, quos in quarta tertiae classis sectione locustae adumbrant. Atq[ue] hae appendices adiunctam habent tam piorum patrum, quàm Antichristoru[m] in ecclesijs quasi perpetuam successionem, cum rarissimis diuersarum terrarum ac gentium historijs & exemplis: ex quibus apparebunt eorum adulteria, stupra, contentiones, seditiones, sectae, inuidiae, fallaciae, ueneficia, homicidia, ac principum proditiones, cum innumerabilibus imposturis..
Varying form of title
Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae, quam nunc Angliam & Scotiam vocant: catalogus
Varying form of title
Scriptorvm illustrium Maioris Brytanniae, quam nunc Angliam & Scotiam uocant: catalogus
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae, : Apud Ioannem Oporinum., Anno salutis humanae M.D.LVII. Mense Septembri. [i.e. 1557-1559]
Physical description
2 v. in 1 ([28], 742, [2]; [20], 250, [86] p.) : ill. (port.) ; fol. (31 cm.)
Note
Date of publication from colophon at end of v. 1. Colophon at end of v. 2 reads: "Basileae, ex officina Ioannis Oporini anno salutis humanae M.D.LIX. mense Februario.".
Note
Vol. 2 has title "Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae posterior pars, quinque continens centurias ultimas".
Note
Signatures: [alpha]⁶ [beta]-[gamma]⁴ a-z⁴ A-Z⁴ 2a-2z⁴ 2A-3A⁴; [alpha]⁶ [beta]⁴ a-z⁴ A-T⁴.
Note
Printer's device on t.p. to both vols. and repeated in a different form with motto "In via virtuti nulla est via" on verso of final leaf of both vols.
Note
Woodcut portrait of the author on verso of t.p. of both vols.
Note
Head-piece, woodcut initials.
Note
Errata on p. [18] second sequence.
Citation/references note
Adams, B136
Citation/references note
ESTC, S118559
Provenance
Latin inscription at head of preface recording donation by Matthew Bust (Head Master of Eton 1611-1630) 'informatoris' in 1616, cropped at the upper edge; information repeated in a later hand on front free-endpaper.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College on front free-endpaper retained from previous binding.
Binding
19th century diced calf half binding; marbled paper boards; gilt spine lettering and fillets; red sprinkled text block edges.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: lacking the first leaf i.e. title page.
Subject
English literature Bibliography Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507 - 1568 printer.
Added entry--name
Bust, Matthew, 1543 or 4 - 1613 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46421