Elenchus scriptorum omnium, ueterum scilicet ac recentioru[m], extantium & non extantiu[m], publicatoru[m] at[que] hinc inde in bibliothecis latitantium, qui ab exordio mundi us[que] ad nostra tempora in diuersis linguis, artibus ac facultatib. claruerunt, ac etiam num hodie uiuunt : ante annos aliquot à clariss. uiro D. Conrado Gesnero medico Tigurino editus, nu[n]c uerò primùm in reipublicae literariae gratiam in compendium redactus, & autorum haud poenitenda accessione auctus / per Conradum Lycosthenem Rubeaquensem.

Accession number

PML 125013

Creator

Lykosthenes, Konrad, 1518-1561.

Published

Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, anno Salutis humanae 1551 mense Septembri.

Credit line

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.

Notes

Abridgment of Konrad Gesner's Bibliotheca universalis.
Publisher statement and date from colophon.
Signatures: a-b⁴, A-4C⁴.
Errata: prelim. p. [16].
Includes index.

Description

[16] p., 1096 columns, [28] p. ; 22 cm. (4to)

Inscriptions/Markings

Inscription on second flyleaf unidentified. Annotation on verso of penultimate flyleaf inside lower cover: "Henricus Huntendunensis diaconus scriptet historia Anglaru[m] Anno d[omi]ni 1135." Contemporary annotations regarding Emperor Frederick II and a pope inside lower cover. Sparse contemporary annotations in Latin in multiple hands throughout.

Provenance

From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cen. France).

Binding

Contemporary green (?) reversed alum-tawed skin over paperboards, blind tooled, with evidence of paper spine label; edges colored red.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books