Shelfmark
Gd.5.17
Author
Title
Mellificium historicum complectens historiam trium monarchiarum: Chaldaicæ siue Assyriacæ, Persicæ, Græcæ: inprimis que rerum omnium sub Persica Monarchia à Græcis gestarum: & eorum, quæ mortem Alexandri Magni secuta sunt in regnis diuersis, quæ sunt constituta à successoribus Alexandri M. Collecto flore et succo ex optimis et præstantissimis authoribus, Herodoto, Thucydide, Xenophonte, Diodoro Siculo, Ariano, Q. Curtio, Iustino, Plutarcho: in Gymnasio Scholæ Bremensis: in explicatione epitomes Sleidani, de summis orbis terrarum imperiis: propositum a Christophoro Pezelio Sacræ Theologiæ Doctore & Professore..
Varying form of title
Mellificivm historicvm complectens historiam trium monarchiarum
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Mellificii historici pars secunda
Publication, distribution, etc.
Hanoviæ : Sumptibus G. Antonii, & Pauli Egenolphi,, MDCII. [1602]
Physical description
[28], 654, 548 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Note
"Mellificii historici pars secunda: ..." has separate title-page dated 1603, with separate pagination and signatures.
Note
Title-page ornaments; woodcut head-pieces and initials; printed marginalia.
Note
Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁸ A-2S⁸ ²A-2L⁸ ²2M².
Note
Leaf 2[dagger]7 blank but for a horizontal line at head of recto; leaf 2[dagger]8 blank but for a horizontal line at head of verso.
Note
Leaf 2S8 is blank.
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary calf; boards have triple-blind-fillet border frames and blind-stamped oval centrepiece; four raised bands; goatskin spine label with gilt title in triple-gold-fillet frame: "Mellificium historicum"; board edges tooled in blind; ms. fore-edge title: "Mellificii historici"; printed waste visible beneath paste-downs.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fl.6.05.
Copy-specific note
A small number of ms. underlinings and markings on preliminary leaves.
Subject
Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506 - 1556 De summis orbis terrarum imperiis.
Subject
World history Early works to 1800.
Subject
History, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Antonius, Wilhelm, ? - -1611 publisher.
Added entry--name
Egenolff, Paul, ? - -1625 publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Hanau.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B47887