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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.

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Germany Frankfurt am Main.

Language code

lat grc

Identifier

B51413
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