Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata, or Proverbs, English and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads in Erasmus his Adages : very use-full and delightfull for all sorts of men, on all occasions : more especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, John, 1596?-1658.

Contributor:

Milbourne, Robert, -1642 or 1643, publisher.

Man, Samuel, -1674, bookseller.

Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Proverbs, English--Early works to 1800.

Proverbs, English.

Proverbs, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Proverbs, Latin.

Quotations, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Quotations, Latin.

Penn Provenance:

Lanherne (Convent : St. Mawgan, England) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 329 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata

Proverbs, English and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads in Erasmus his Adages

Fingerprint:

t.n- e-to e-nd Mewi (3) 1646 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R.M. [Robert Mylbourne?] and are to be sold by Samuel Man ..., 1646.

Notes:

"The Epistle to the Reader" signed: John Clarke.

A reissue of the 1639 edition (STC 5360) with imprint on label pasted onto title leaf over original imprint, which reads: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at the signe of the Vncorne [sic] neere Fleet-bridge, 1639. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸ A-X⁸.

Gathering A wrongly imposed: leaves A7v and A8r appear in each other's places.

Title within ruled border; text printed primarily in double columns.

Woodcut initial.

Typographical ornaments.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full contemporary sheepskin; boards double-ruled in blind; blind-ruled spine panels; white paper spine label with ms. title and date; bookplate ("Lanherne Convent, Chaplain's Library.") with ms. inscription ("Ex dono 1927") on inside front cover.

Penn Libraries copy has Spanish proverbs and their English translations in early ms. on inside front cover, front endleaves, verso of title leaf and recto of back free endpaper; early ms. note on leaf Q5r.

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Cited in:

ESTC R173939

OCLC:

612747626