Ierusalem, uetustissima illa et celeberrima totius mundi ciuitas, ex sacris literis et approbatis historicis ad unguem descripta : una cum orthodoxis figuræ ac ueritatis explicationibus, iuxta scripturarum Veteris ac Noui Testamenti accuratam collationem. : Ac quænam huius urbis mystica sit repræsentatio. : Quid etiam peregrina propria nomina, in tota passim historia commemorata, significent atq[ue] denotent. / Quæ Adamus Reisnerus magno primùm labore Germanica lingua delineata edidit: ; nunc autem Latinè omnia perscripta, ac fusius plerisq[ue] in locis, ueterum ecclesiasticorum scriptorum testmonijs adhibitis, tractata, & in septem libros digesta sunt. Per Iohannem Heydenum Eyflandrum Dunensem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reissner, Adam, 1500-1572.

Contributor:

Heyden, Johann, 16th century.

Standardized Title:

Jerusalem, die alte Hauptstat der Jüden. Vol. 1. Latin

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Jerusalem--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Jerusalem.

Penn Provenance:

Lamborn, Robert H. (donor)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 635 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Descriptionis vrbis Ierosolymae lib. I-VII

Descriptionis urbis Jerosolymae lib. I-VII

Jerusalem, vetustissima illa et celeberrima totius mundi civitas, ex sacris literis et approbatis historicis ad unguem descripta

Place of Publication:

Francofurti ... : Per Georgium Coruinum, Sigismundum Feirabent & haeredes Vuigandi Galli, M.D.LXIII. [1563]

Notes:

Translation of the first volume of "Jerusalem, die alte Hauptstat der Jüden", originally published Frankfurt 1555. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie states that two volumes of the translation were published in 1563, but this is not confirmed by the bibliographic sources available.

Printers' names from colophon.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ A-Z⁶ a-z⁶ Aa-Hh⁶ Ii⁴ Kk⁶ (the plates are signed C, but are not a part of the signature sequence).

Woodcuts: ill., maps, initials, device.

Errata: p. 635.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: first six leaves (including title-leaf) wanting; ms. transcription of title laid in.

Cited in:

Adams R340

BM STC German 1455-1600, 731

OCLC:

43126420