Shelfmark
Gd.3.04
Author
Title
Belli sacri historia, libris XXIII comprehensa, da Hierosolyma, ac terra promissionis, adeoq́[ue] uniuersa penè Syria per occidentales principes Christianos recuperata: narrationis serie usq[ue] ad regnum Balduini Quarti, per annos LXXXIIII continuata. Opus mirabili rerum scitu dignissimarum uarietate refertum, ac historiae studiosis ut iucundissimum, ita & utilissimum futurum: ante annos quidem circiter quadringentos conscriptum, nunćque primùm doctissimi uiri Philiberti Poyssenoti opera in lucem editum. Gulielmo Tyrio Metropolitano quondam Archiepiscopo, ac regni eiusdem Cancellario, autore. Rerum toto opere memorabilium capita post praefationem reperies..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae. : Per Nicolaum Brylingerum et Ioannem Oporinum,, anno salutis humanæ MDXLIX, mense Martio. [1549]
Physical description
[32], 578, [2] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Note
Printers' names and date of publication from colophon.
Note
Printer's device with inscription "Arion" on t.p.
Note
In this issue quire [alpha] consists of 8 leaves bearing a dedication to C. Coquille; in another issue of the same year (see Adams, W177) quire [alpha] consists of four leaves bearing a dedication to Sebastian, Archbishop of Mainz.
Note
Signatures: [alpha]-[beta]⁸ a-z⁶ A-Z⁶ AA⁶ BB⁸ (BB8 blank).
Citation/references note
Adams, W176
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
18th century; blue paper over boards; ms. title on front cover: "Tyrius de of ye Holy war"; ms. title on spine: "Belli Sacri Historia".
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wants final blank leaf.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Df.4.23.
Subject
Crusades Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Brylinger, Nikolas, fl. 1537 - 1565 printer.
Added entry--name
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507 - 1568 printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B47779