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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.
- 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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