Shelfmark
Gb.5.23
Author
Title
[Thaumantiados thaumasia] sive De iridis admiranda : sub rationis accuratius examen revocata eruditorumq[ue] ventilationi publicae in Alma Altdorffina Universitate exposita / sub praesidio Joh. Christophori Sturmii, mathem. & phil. nat. PP. à Christophoro Theophilo Volcamero P.N.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De iridis admiranda
Publication, distribution, etc.
Noribergae, : Apud Wolfgangum Mauritium Endterum,, Anno MDCXCIX. [1699]
Physical description
[4], 185, [3] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to.)
Note
Signatures: pi² (pi1 blank?) A-Y⁴ Z⁶ (Z6 blank?).
Note
First two words of title in Greek characters, transliterated.
Note
Head-pieces, initials; tables.
Note
Includes four engraved plates of geometrical diagrams.
Note
Main text in Latin, with some sections in Greek.
Citation/references note
BL German, 1601-1700, S3085
Provenance
Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: N. Mann Dedit Fr. Hare Coll. Regal. Soc. 1702. Presumably this refers to Francis Hare (1671-1740), bishop of Chichester, who was a Fellow of King's College Cambridge from 1692 to 1706.
Binding
Contemporary English mottled calf; blind tooled triple and double fillet frames; blind-tooled lozenge fleurons at corners of inner frame; gold tooled scroll roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; five raised bands; red and green sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
All four folded plates present, February 2019.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dc.6.26.
Subject
Rainbows Early works to 1800.
Subject
Reflection (Optics) Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Endter, Wolfgang Moritz, 1653 - 1723 printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hare, Francis, 1671 - 1740 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Germany Nuremberg.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B47307