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Pomponij Mellae Cosmographi geographia ; Prisciani quo[que] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi De situ orbis interpretatio.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mela, Pomponius.
Contributor:
Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 1528, printer.
Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
De chorographia
Language:
Latin
Subjects (All):
Geography, Ancient.
Genre:
Incunabula.
Penn Provenance:
Macauley, Francis Campbell (bookplate) (donor)
Physical Description:
48 unnumbered leaves : map ; 22 cm (4to)
Other Title:
Pomponii Mellae Cosmographi geographia
Cosmographi geographia
Prisciani quo[que] ex Dionysio Thessalonicensi De situ orbis interpretatio
De situ orbis interpretatio
Goff title: Cosmographia, sive, De situ orbis
Cosmographia
De situ orbis
Fingerprint:
sai: a.il vtus itgr (C) 1482 (A)
Place of Publication:
[Venice] : Erhardus Ratdolt Auguste[n]sis impressit Venetijs, 15. Calen[das] Augusti Anno salutis nostr[a]e 1482 [18 July 1482]
Notes:
Imprint from colophon on leaf F8r, which reads: Pomponij mell[a]e vna cu[m] prisciani ex dionysio de orbis situ interpretatione finit. Erhardus ratdolt Auguste[n]sis impressit Venetijs. 15. Calen[das]. Augusti Anno salutis nostr[a]e. 1482. Laus deo.
Chancery quarto. Leaf A2v: 31 lines; area of text: 138 x 94 mm. Caption title on leaf A2r printed in red. Woodcut initials. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Full-page woodcut map (185 x 131 mm.) on leaf A1v.
Signatures: A-F⁸.
Local Notes:
Leaf size: 205 x 148 mm.
Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
Presented to the Penn Libraries by Francis Campbell Macauley (with his bookplate on front pastedown).
Penn Libraries copy has wormholes in fore-edge margin of leaves (mended on leaves B1-D1 and E1-E2); pinpoint wormhole in lower portion of leaves B1-F8; wormholes in head margin of leaves A4-F8; wormhole in tail outer corner of leaves D4-F8 (mended on leaves D6-E6).
Cited in:
Goff M-452
BM 15th cent. V, p. 286 (IA.20518)
GW M34876
BN cat. des incun. M-283
BSB-Ink. P-687
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1809
ISTC im00452000
Contains:
Dionysius, Periegetes. Orbis terrae descriptio. Latin
OCLC:
11392489

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