Shelfmark
Gh.2.02
Author
Title
Polyanthea, hoc est opus suauissimis floribus celebriorum sententiarum tam Græcarum, quam Latinarum exornatum, quos ex innumeris fere cum sacris, tum profanis auctoribus... summa fide collegere, ad communem studiosæ iuuentutis utilitatem, eruditissimi viri Dominicus Nanus Mirabellius, Bartholomæus Amantius & Franciscus Tortius.
Varying form of title
Polyanthea, hoc est opvs svavissimis floribvs
Varying form of title
Polyanthea, hoc est opus suavissimis floribvs
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni : Sumptibus Hæredum Eustathij Vignon, Anno MDC. [1600]
Physical description
[12], 851, [1] p. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Language
Text in Latin with sections in Greek.
Note
Signatures: [***]⁶, a-4b⁶
Note
Printer's device on t.p.; t.p. printed in black and red.
Note
Body of text printed in double columns.
Note
Woodcut initials.
Citation/references note
SBN, IT\ICCU\TO0E\021185 Var. A
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College on the verso of the t.p..
Binding
Early 17th-century plain brown calf binding; frame with triple blind fillet; six raised bands decorated with blind fillets; similar decoration with blind fillets on edges of boards; on spine gold titling on red leather; remains of tacks for chain; additional three flyleaves on front and two on back of book; title on fore-edge; red sprinkled tail. Two leaves of a medieval ms used as pastedowns with possibly the text of the Canticum Canticorum. Similar binding and binding waste as Gh..2.01.
Copy-specific note
Two previous shelfmarks on first front fly leaf: Cq.3.3.7 and Gh.2.2.
Subject
Aphorisms and apothegms Early works to 1800.
Subject
Quotations, Greek Early works to 1800.
Subject
Quotations, Latin Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Torti, Francesco, 1500 - 1599 author.
Added entry--name
Haeredes Eustathii Vignon printer.
Added entry--place
France Lion.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B50199