Accession number
PML 125717
Creator
Apian, Peter, 1495-1552.
Published
Vaeneunt Antuerpiae : In pingui gallina Arnoldo Berckma[n]no, M.D.XL [1540].
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1995.
Notes
Printing shop of Aegidius (Gillis) Coppens van Diest, identified in colophon, which reads: Excusum Antuerpiae opera Aegidij Copenij, 1540. Possibly printed for Coppens by Gregorius de Bonte, whose woodcut initials are used throughout, and whose device appears on verso of last leaf. See images of Bonte's initials on the blog "Early Modern Typography" https://earlymoderntypography.com/category/belgium/
Signatures: A-O⁴ P⁶.
Woodcuts: extensively illustrated with diagrams, maps, and volvelles (leaves X, XIII, XXIX, and XLV); small ornamental initials; large woodcut globe on title-page, decorated with horses heads, dolphins, and acanthus leaves (repeated on verso of leaf XXII); printer's device of Gregorius de Bonte on verso of final leaf, featuring a woman, holding the scales of justice in one hand, and offering alms to a beggar with the other hand, with words from the Bible verse Matthew XXIII:23: "Graviora legis misericordia, fides, iudicium" within surrounding border.
Includes Apian's dedicatory preface from the 1524 edition addressed to Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, archbishop of Salzburg, dated Jan. 26, 1524 ("anno M.D.XXIIII.septimo calend. Februarias") in Landshute [Germany].
PML copy without volvelle on leaf XI (as in all copies).
Signatures: A-O⁴ P⁶.
Woodcuts: extensively illustrated with diagrams, maps, and volvelles (leaves X, XIII, XXIX, and XLV); small ornamental initials; large woodcut globe on title-page, decorated with horses heads, dolphins, and acanthus leaves (repeated on verso of leaf XXII); printer's device of Gregorius de Bonte on verso of final leaf, featuring a woman, holding the scales of justice in one hand, and offering alms to a beggar with the other hand, with words from the Bible verse Matthew XXIII:23: "Graviora legis misericordia, fides, iudicium" within surrounding border.
Includes Apian's dedicatory preface from the 1524 edition addressed to Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, archbishop of Salzburg, dated Jan. 26, 1524 ("anno M.D.XXIIII.septimo calend. Februarias") in Landshute [Germany].
PML copy without volvelle on leaf XI (as in all copies).
Description
LXI, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), maps ; 23 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
All illustrations hand colored.
Provenance
Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), booklabel; Julia P. Wightman (1909-1994), booklabel, purchased from F. & G. Staack, 1957.
Binding
Tree calf; in a 1/4 morocco box made by Julia P. Wightman, 1957.
Classification
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Department