Aeneae Sylvii Piccolominei Senensis, qvi post adeptvm pontificatvm Pivs eivs nominis secvndvs appellatus est, opera quæ extant omnia, nunc demum post corruptissimas æditiones summa diligentia castigata & in unum corpus redacta, quorum elenchum uersa pagella indicabit. His qvoqve accessit Gnomologia ex omnibvs Sylvii operibus collecta, & index rerum ac uerborum omnium copiosissimus.
Accession number:
PML 79700
Published:
Basileæ, ex officina Henricpetrina MDLXXI [1571]
Description:
62 p. l., 1086, [32] p., 1 l. illus. (maps) 31 cm.
Credit:
Purchased on the H.S. Morgan Antiquarian Reference Fund, 1987.
Notes:
Printer's mark on t.p. and on verso of last leaf.
Lycosthenes' Gnomologia ([32] p. at end) has special t.p.
Errors in paging.
Colophon: Basileæ, ex officina Henricpetrina, anno salvtis hvmanæ M.D. LXXI. mense avgvsto.
Edited by Marcus Hopper.
"Pii II. pontificis max. vita, par Platynam descripta."--4th-17th prelim. leaf.
"Cosmographiæ, uel de mondo uniuerso historiarum lib. I" and "Europa, ingua sui temporis uarias historias complectitur, lib. I" (p. 281-471) are illustrated with maps.
Binding:
Brown calf over paper boards with blind filet decoration; rebacked.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Inscriptions: "g. e." next to printer's mark on title-page; "kf" and "2 h ll" at bottom of title-page (leaf a1r).
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Richard Hatchwell, 1987.
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