Shelfmark
Gk.6.15
Author
Title
Icones et Vitae Paparum : libellus recens editus, quo non solum Omnium romanae sedis pontificum, a D. Petro, usque ad Clementem IIX. Effigies, quam accuratissime ad vivum expressae, ob oculos ponuntur: sed etiam, singulorum vitae, nomina, parentes, familia, natales, patria, insignia, symbola, dignitates et officia, resque gestae: annus item, mensis ac dies creationis, inaugurationis, administrati pontificatus, obitus et sedis vacantis: adiuncto Imperatorum quoque synchronismo: et tandem locus sepulturae: Ex probatissimis quibusque authoribus, diligenter et compendiose describuntur: Opera et studio, Hieronymi Megiseri..
Varying form of title
Icones & Vitæ Paparum
Publication, distribution, etc.
Francofurti, : Per Ioachimum Bratheringium: , Anno 1602.
Physical description
[16], 639, [1] p. ; ill. (woodcuts) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Note
Text appears within decorative border throughout.
Note
Signatures: )(⁸ A-2R⁸.
Note
Each entry includes a portrait of the relevant pope.
Note
Title page printed in black and red.
Note
Last leaf verso includes the border but no text.
Citation/references note
USTC, 2013327
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
?20th-century calfskin over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border and a panel with tools at the outer corners. Spine with four raised bands, decorated with gilt titling over brown morocco label ("Megiseri vitæ paparum"; "1602"). Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.6.20.
Subject
Popes Biography Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Brathering, Joachim, ? - -1605 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51381