Shelfmark
Gg.9.08(02)
Author
Title
Calendarium historicum conscriptum a Paulo Ebero Kitthingensi..
Varying form of title
Calendarivm historicvm
Publication, distribution, etc.
Vitebergae : Iterum et auctius excusum in officina haeredum Georgii Rhavv., Anno M.D.LVI. [1556]
Physical description
[32], 432, [48] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
Signatures: A-2I⁸.
Note
Title page in red and black.
Note
Consists of one page for each day of the year (with dates given according to the Christian, Jewish, Greek and Roman calendars and an additional leaf introducing each month) bearing details of significant historical events, including births and deaths, that occurred on each day, also religious celebrations, with space left for the reader to add details of later events.
Note
Text in Latin with sections in Greek and Hebrew.
Note
Woodcut initials, printed marginal notes.
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front inside board, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
18th century calf binding; blind tooled double fillet border and roll stamp on boards; brown morocco spine label; traces of manuscript, rubricated waste paper.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy bound with H. Junius, De anno & mensibus co[m]mentarius, Basel: H. Petri, 1556, and C. Fischbach, Confirmatio chronologiae, atque locorum difficilium, Strasbourg: W. Rihel, 1552.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fk.7.15.
Copy-specific note
Index inscription on front board and text block edges.
Subject
Chronology, Historical Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--name
Haeredes Georgii Rhaw printer.
Added entry--place
Germany Wittenberg.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B49190