Shelfmark
Gk.7.17(01)
Author
Uniform title
[De rerum natura]
Title
T. Lucretii Cari poetae, nec minus philosophi vetustissimi, De rerum natura libri sex. Ad verorum exemplarium fidem accuratè castigati.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De rerum natura libri sex
Varying form of title
Portion of title: T. Lvcretii Cari poetae, nec minvs philosophi vetvstissimi, De rervm natvra libri sex
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae : Apud Henricum Petrum, Mense Augusto, anno MDXXXI. [1531]
Physical description
[8], 150, [2] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Note
"T. Lucretii Cari vita per Petrum Crinitum Florentinum": t.p. verso - leaf 3.
Note
Errata: verso leaf [151].
Note
Pagination: leaves 140, 143 incorrectly numbered 134, 120.
Note
Signatures: A-V⁸.
Note
Includes printer's device on last leaf verso; decorated initials; printed marginalia.
Provenance
19th-century bookplate of Georgius Klok of Frankfurt am Main on front flyleaf of sammelband.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf of sammelband.
Provenance
Bookplate of the Pömer family, by H.S. Behman and illustrated in Hollstein, on front pastedown of sammelband. Information provided from typed letter/report on loose card inserted between rear pastedown and textblock, signed by Alan Thomas, antiquarian bookseller.
Provenance
Ms. inscription dated 1534 on rear pastedown. What seems to be the same hand writes publication details on last leaf verso.
Provenance
Ms. initials on title page: H.H.
Binding
Sammelband. ?Early modern ?calfskin over woodboards. Covers decorated with blind-tooled roll to form a border, blind fillets to form two concentric panels with flower tools in between; three vertical rolls fill the inner panel; metal clasps and corner-pieces. Spine with three sewing supports, undecorated. Textblock trimmed; one parchment bookmark remains. Endpapers of undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bound with two other items, shelfmarks Gk.7.17(02)-(03): (2) On Virgil's Bucolics; (3) the Iliad in Latin.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.6.1.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Petri, Heinrich, 1508 - 1579 printer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
Thomas, Alan G. bookseller.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51406