Shelfmark
Gb.6.23
Author
Uniform title
[De rerum varietate]
Title
Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De rerum uarietate libri XVII. : Adiectus est capitum, rerum & sententiarum notatu dignissimarum index..
Varying form of title
De rerum uarietate libri XVII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileæ, : Per Henrichum Petri,, anno MDLVII [1557].
Physical description
[32], 1194 [i.e. 1208], [64] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port., tables, diagrs. ; 19 cm. (8vo.)
Note
Printer statement from colophon.
Note
Signatures: aa-bb⁸ (bb8 blank) A-Z⁸ a-z⁸ aA-bB⁸ chi² cC⁸ dD⁸(dD2+²chi²) eE-zZ⁸ AA-KK⁸.
Note
The chi² and ²chi² gatherings are insertions paged 769-770 and 791-792. respectively.
Note
Numerous errors in pagination; page numbers 891-900 repeated in sequence.
Note
Illustrated throughout with woodcut gatherings.
Note
"Occultatio": p. 801-817.
Note
"De divinatione occultiore": p. 911-930.
Note
Woodcut medallion portrait of the author, dated 1553, on verso of t.p.
Note
Woodcut initials, printed marginal notes.
Provenance
Inscription at head of title-page: Io. Dotin De auton gifford in deuon. Rector me emit 18o Iulij 1558 london 6s. I.e. John Dotyn, d. 1561, rector of Aveton Gifford in Devon, purchased this book in London for six shillings on 18th July 1558. Dotyn was admitted BA of Exeter College Oxford in 1524. See Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Oxford AD 1501-1540, p. 173 for more.
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary English dark brown calf; two concentric frames of blind tooled triple fillet, the inner having small fleurons at the corners; blind tooled central ornament of two arabesque stamps; holes for ties in each board; blind tooled double fillet on spine, with compartments of hatching at head and tail; red morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and title; mend at head of spine using vellum; five raised bands; faintly sprinkled edges; title written horizontally on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
The chi2 and 2chi2 gatherings (pages 769-770 and 791-792) have been been bound in after the preliminaries.
Copy-specific note
Torn binders' waste visible between front flyleaves: a contemporary list of ?cloth with prices.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ff.6.12.
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Subject
Cryptography Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Petri, Heinrich, 1508 - 1579 printer.
Added entry--name
Dotyn, John, fl. 1524 - 1561 former owner.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Identifier
B48129