Shelfmark
Gg.4.19
Author
Title
Barnabæ Brissonii regii consistorii consiliarii, amplissimique senatus Parisiensis praesidis, De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, libri VIII: omnibus politioris litteraturae, cum primis iurisprudentiae studiosis vtiles & necessarii; in quibus varii bonorum auctorum loci emendantur, supplentur, notantur, illustrantur. Opus magno labore ab auctore congestum; nunc vero diligenter recognitum & à prioribus mendis purgatum. Adiecti sunt rerum & verborum indices locupletissimi..
Varying form of title
Barnabæ Brissonii regii consistorii consiliarii, amplissimiqve senatvs Parisiensis praesidis, De formvlis et sollemnibvs popli Romani verbis, libri VIII
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De formulis et sollemnibus populi Romani verbis, libri VIII
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De formvlis et sollemnibvs popli Romani verbis, libri VIII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti, : Apud Ioannem Wechelum & Petrum Fischerum consortes, MDXCII. [1592]
Physical description
[8], 750 [i.e. 760], [84] p. : ill. (coat of arms) ; 23 cm. (4to)
Language
Text in Latin, with some sections in Greek.
Note
Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-5N⁴ 5O².
Note
Title-page printed in red and black.
Note
Printer's mark in woodcut on title-page (Hertz no. 137).
Note
Dedicatory letter "... Henrico Ranzouio, regis Daniæ in ducatibus Slesuici, ... vicario & consiliario ..." (with woodcut coat of arms) signed Joannes Wechelus.
Note
Woodcut headpieces and initials.
Citation/references note
Adams, B2848
Numbering peculiarities note
Errors in pagination: page no.575-578 omitted; no.559-560, 585-586, and 671-680 duplicated.
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Binding
Late 16th to early 17th century dark calf over pasteboard, sewn on five alum tawed supports, possibly at Oxford. On both covers, a blind-stamped centrepiece (very similar to Pearson Centrepiece xiv though with a different pattern in the central oval) with a border of blind triple fillets (thin-thick-thin) intersecting at corners; faint traces of a single blind fillet on board edges. Spine with five raised bands, tooled across and beside with transvere blind fillets; diagonal hatching at head and tail of spine; c. 18th century red morocco label with gilt titling. Textblock trimmed and ?dyed yellow; manuscript "10" at head of fore-edge. Endpapers with watermark of crowned portcullis. Previously described as an 18th century binding.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fd.3.11
Copy-specific note
Manuscript ?code below imprint in an early hand: "g f ".
Subject
Latin language Terms and phrases Early works to 1800.
Subject
Roman law Terms and phrases Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wechel, Johann, ? - -1593 printer.
Added entry--name
Fischer, Peter printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner, donor.
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
Language code
latgrc
Language code
lat gre
Identifier
B49685