Shelfmark
Ga.8.14
Author
Title
Auium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, breuis & succincta historia Ex opimis quibusque scripto ribus contexta, scholio illustrata & aucta. Adiectis nominibus Græcis, Germanicis & Britannicis. Per Dn. Guilielmum Turnerum, artium & medicinæ doctorum.
Varying form of title
Avibus
Varying form of title
Other title: Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud plinium et Aristotelem mentio est
Publication, distribution, etc.
Coloniæ : excudebat Ioan. Gymnicus, anno M. D. XLIIII. [1544]
Physical description
[158] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
Signatures: A-K (-K8).
Note
With a final errata leaf.
Note
Running title reads: De auibus.
Note
With bird names in Greek, German and English.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.) 24350.5
Citation/references note
ESTC, S124618
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century mid brown calf with a sprinkled outer frame and a solid stained central panel; blind tooled double fillet and dot roll frames; gold tooled dot roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled title and double fillet; four raised bands; red sprinkled bands.
Copy-specific note
16th century manicules, underscorings and marginal annotations throughout text, mostly in English and supplying English bird names.
Subject
Pliny the Elder
Subject
Subject
Birds Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Gymnich, Johann, active 1520 - 1544 printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46461