Ioannes Frobenius lectori S. D. En damus C. Plinii Secundi divinum opus cui titulus, Historia mundi, multo quàm antehac unquam prodijt emanulatius: idq[ue] primum ex annotationibus eruditorum hominum, praesortim Hermolai Barbari: deinde ex collatione exemplariorum. quae hactenus opera doctorum nobix quàm fieri potuit emendatissime sunt excusa: postremo ex fide uetustissimorum codicum, ex quibus non pauca restituimus, quae alioque nemo, quamlibet eruditus uel deprehendit, uel deprehendere poterat. Absit inuidia dicto. Vicimus superiores omneis. Si quis hanc palmam nobis eripuerit, non illi quide[m] inuidebimus, sed studijs publicis gratulabimur. Bene uale lector, & fruere Agathe tyche. Additus est index, in quo nihil desideres.

Accession number

PML 129243

Creator

Pliny, the Elder.

Published

Basileae : apud Io. Frobenium, Mense Martie An. M. D. XXV. [March 1525]

Credit line

Purchased as the gift of Jonathan A. Hill, 2003.

Notes

Includes index.
Printer's device on the title page; verso of p. 671, title page of the index; verso of the final leaf.
Index title: Index in Universum naturalis historiae. C. Plinii opus, summa diligentia collectus.
Woodcut initials.
Page 179 and 375 misnumbered 189 and 75.
Printed marginalia.
Edited by Desiderius Erasmus.

Description

[18] leaves, 671, [143] p. ; 37 cm.

Inscriptions/Markings

Annotated in a sixteenth-century English hand.

Binding

Eighteenth-century English polished calf.

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