Shelfmark
Gk.7.22
Title
Anthologia gnomica, illustres veterum Graecae comaediae scriptorum sententiae prius ab H. Stephano, qui & singulas Lat. convertit, editae, nunc duplici interpretatione metrica auctae, inque gratiam studiosorum, quibus et variae scutorum natalitiorum imagines libello passim insertae usui erunt, in hoc enchiridion, V. CL. D. Ioh. Posthii, Germersh, Archiatri VVirzeburg & P. Lauspiciis collectae a C. Egenolpho fr..
Varying form of title
Anthologia gnomica, illvstres vetervm Græcæ comædiæ
Publication, distribution, etc.
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum, : apud Georgium Corvinum, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendii., M. D. LXXIX. [1579]
Physical description
[8], 190, [2] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
Leaves 173-178: "Ioachimi Camerarii, v. cl. Monosticha gnomica"; leaves 179-186: "In veredarivm Posthii divers. epigrammata".
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Note
Includes printer's device and tail-pieces.
Note
Full-page woodcuts throughout. Many illustrations are repeated, after Jost Amman, including a few coats of arms and many blank shields for the insertion of arms (from Trinity, Cambridge record).
Note
Signatures: )(⁸ A-Z⁸ a⁸.
Citation/references note
Adams, E73
Citation/references note
USTC, 611819
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Provenance
Ms. notes on front flyleaf: "Heraldic exhibition in Birmingham 1936 no. 816"; "To Emery Walker from SCCockerell May 12, 1905"; "Bequeathed back to me by my dear friend EW 22 July 1933 SCC"; "To D.S. ?Crom from SCC 30 Jan 1960".
Provenance
Ms. note on front flyleaf verso: "John Withie 1623".
Binding
16th-century calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border; gilt centrepiece with initials A and V on either side; remnants of cloth ties as clasps. Spine rebacked, decorated with blind fillets and gilt titling over red label ("Collecti of armes"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Leaves B4, a7, a8 missing.
Copy-specific note
Bound up with this volume are 50 leaves of of 16th-century ms. notes relating to heraldry, containing 285 coloured coats of arms with descriptions -- from bookseller's entry on front pastedown. This manuscript appears is split in two, appearing prior and following the printed text.
Copy-specific note
Drawing of cockrel on last leaf verso.
Subject
Epigrams Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry Germany Early works to 1800.
Subject
Proverbs, Greek Early works to 1800.
Subject
Proverbs, Latin Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Egenolph, Christian, 1528 - 1566 editor.
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Amman, Jost, 1539 - 1591 illustrator.
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Rab, Georg, ? - -1580 printer.
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Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528 - 1590 bookseller.
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Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, 1867 - 1962 Sir, former owner.
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Walker, Emery, 1851 - 1933 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B51413