Accession number
PML 62330
Creator
Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century?
Published
Viennae Austriae : Per Joanne[m] Singreniu[m], impensis honesti Lucae Alantse, civis, & bibliopolae Viennensis, Anno nativitatis Domini. M. D. XX. [1520]
Credit line
Gift of Miss Caroline Newton in memory of Ernst H. Buschbeck, 1971.
Notes
Originally published under title: Iulii Solini De situ et memorabilibus orbis capitula. Venice, 1473.
Consists of text, headed: Iulii Solini Polyhistor, and commentary by Ioannes Camers (the latter printed in smaller type).
"Polyistora" in title transliterated from Greek.
Title surrounded by illustrative border, with medallion at bottom, signed: L A [=Lucas Alantse].
Imprint from colophon (p. [3], 3rd count). Date precedes place, printer and publisher; publisher's name is followed by device, signed: L A and also: Lucas Alantse. Printer's device on p. [36], 3rd count, signed: Ioannes Singrenius calcographus Viennensis.
Annotated by Joannes Camers.
Plate (map) unnumbered.
With the woodcut world map of Petrus Apianus, "Tipus orbis universalis", 1520.
Errata (p.[1-2], 3rd count).
Includes index.
Contains life of Solinus, by Joannes Camers (p. [14-15], 1st count).
The world map, by Peter Apian, includes North and South America as two disjunct continents; South America is designated as "America", and North America as "Vlteri[us] terra incognita". The map may also have been issued separately, according to Shirley.
Consists of text, headed: Iulii Solini Polyhistor, and commentary by Ioannes Camers (the latter printed in smaller type).
"Polyistora" in title transliterated from Greek.
Title surrounded by illustrative border, with medallion at bottom, signed: L A [=Lucas Alantse].
Imprint from colophon (p. [3], 3rd count). Date precedes place, printer and publisher; publisher's name is followed by device, signed: L A and also: Lucas Alantse. Printer's device on p. [36], 3rd count, signed: Ioannes Singrenius calcographus Viennensis.
Annotated by Joannes Camers.
Plate (map) unnumbered.
With the woodcut world map of Petrus Apianus, "Tipus orbis universalis", 1520.
Errata (p.[1-2], 3rd count).
Includes index.
Contains life of Solinus, by Joannes Camers (p. [14-15], 1st count).
The world map, by Peter Apian, includes North and South America as two disjunct continents; South America is designated as "America", and North America as "Vlteri[us] terra incognita". The map may also have been issued separately, according to Shirley.
Description
[16], 336, [34] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 33 cm.
Provenance
Ysbrand Balck (Lat. Trabius; ca. 1530-ca. 1600), signatures: Isbrandus Balckius (front endleaf 1 recto) and Ysbrandus Trabius Frisius (title page); Christopherus Dibuadius (ca. 1578-1622), signature (title page); unidentified shelfmark: Lib 23 in Class 15 (front endleaf 1 recto); Bernard Quaritch, collation statement, 1920 (rear patedown).
Binding
16th-century Netherlands blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked. 2 clasps, 1 missing. Manuscript title on fore-edge.
Classification
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