Accession number
PML 195876
Creator
Petau, Denis, 1583-1652.
Published
Parisiis : Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, viâ Iacobaeâ, sub Ciconiis, 1634.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Second ed. of the monumental chronological work by the celebrated Jesuit scholar Denis Petau, who intended his work to replace Joseph Scaliger's standard work of world chronology, De emendatione temporum, first printed in Paris in 1583, which Petau criticizes throughout.
Title vignette; ornamental woodcut initials; head-pieces; roman and italic types; marginal references.
First and second parts have separate t.p., pagination, and signatures.
Dedicatory epistle to Louis XIII of France on p. [3]-[12] of v. 1.
Vol. 2 has title: "Dionysii Petauii Aurelianensis è Societate Iesu Rationarii temporum pars secunda, quae est ... : hoc est chronologiae methodum, & historicorum temporum argumenta probationesque continet."
Includes indexes.
Errata: v. 1: p. [106] of third sequence; v. 2: p. [11] at end.
Signatures: v. 1: ā¹² A-Mm¹² Nn² [$6 signed ( -A₁, N₁)]; v. 2: ā⁴A-N¹² O⁸ [$6 signed].
Title vignette; ornamental woodcut initials; head-pieces; roman and italic types; marginal references.
First and second parts have separate t.p., pagination, and signatures.
Dedicatory epistle to Louis XIII of France on p. [3]-[12] of v. 1.
Vol. 2 has title: "Dionysii Petauii Aurelianensis è Societate Iesu Rationarii temporum pars secunda, quae est ... : hoc est chronologiae methodum, & historicorum temporum argumenta probationesque continet."
Includes indexes.
Errata: v. 1: p. [106] of third sequence; v. 2: p. [11] at end.
Signatures: v. 1: ā¹² A-Mm¹² Nn² [$6 signed ( -A₁, N₁)]; v. 2: ā⁴A-N¹² O⁸ [$6 signed].
Description
2 v. in 1 ([24], 738, [106]; [8], 315, [13] p.) ; 15 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Louis Kossuth Comstock; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown morocco tooled in gilt, by Le Gascon.
Classification
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