Corippi Africani grammatici De laudibus Iustini Augusti minoris, heroico carmine, libri IIII / nunc primùm è tenebris in lucem asserti ; scholiis etiam & obseruationibus illustrati, per Michaëlem Ruizium Assagrium Celtibêrum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corippus, Flavius Cresconius.

Contributor:

Ruiz de Azagra, Miguel.

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.

Jay I. Kislak Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

In laudem Iustini

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Justin II, Emperor of the East, -578--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Justin.

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Maximilian.

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576.

Justin II, Emperor of the East, -578.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Sparrow, John (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Kislak, Jay I. (donor) (Kislak Collection copy)

Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617 (armorial binding) (former owner) (Kislak Collection copy)

Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-1787 (former owner)

Fürstenberg, Hans (bookplate) (Kislak Collection copy)

Renouard, Ant. Aug. (Antoine Augustin), 1765-1853 (autograph) (Kislak Collection copy)

Physical Description:

93 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

n-i: a.m, ise: PrVt (3) 1581 (R)

Place of Publication:

Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini ..., MDLXXXI [1581]

Notes:

Colophon on leaf F7v reads: Antuerpiae Excudebat Christophorus Plantinus, architypographus regius, Anno M. D. LXXXI. Mense Maio.

Signatures: A-F⁸ (leaf F8 blank).

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), initials and tail-piece.

Printed marginalia.

Dedicatory letter to Albrecht, Archduke of Austria, dated 10 Apr. 1579: p. 3-6.

"Ad D. Maximilianum II. Austrium, Romanorum iam Regem, Imperatoremque a VII. Viris Imperij Romani Principibus Electoribus designatum, heroico carmine votiua gratulatio; per Michaelem Ruizium Assagrium Celtiberum" (1562): P. [65]-70.

Local Notes:

Kislak Collection copy imperfect: leaf F8 (blank) wanting.

Kislak Collection copy has early ms. shelf-mark ("G.C.P.T.3.P.144") in brown ink of the library of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("No 2138 +") in brown ink on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on back pastedown.

Presented to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts by Jay I. Kislak in 2014.

Kislak Collection copy has gold-stamped red leather bookplate ("EX MUSAEO HANS FÜRSTENBERG") of Hans Fürstenberg affixed to front pastedown; dated 18th-century autograph ("Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1793.") of Antoine Augustin Renouard on title leaf.

Kislak Collection copy bound in contemporary full olive morocco; boards triple-ruled in gold with gold-stamped supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) in center (containing his arms and a banner with his name: "IAC. AVGVST THVANVS"); 5 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-ruled spine panels, two with title ("CORRIP." and "PANEGYR."), the rest with de Thou's IADT monogram; all edges gilt; housed in slipcase covered in marbled paper.

Cited in:

Schweiger 293

Adams C-2634

Brunet II 273

OCLC:

187454517