De numeratione emendata : veteribus Latinis et Graecis vsitata / Matthaeo Hosto auctore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Host, Matthaeus, 1509-1587.

Contributor:

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Belgian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Numeration--Early works to 1800.

Numeration.

Numerals--Early works to 1800.

Numerals.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Scott, Jas. W. T. (donor)

Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

62 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

De nvmeratione emendata

Fingerprint:

t.e- ièa- neum Stdu (3) 1582 (R)

Place of Publication:

Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, MDLXXXII [1582]

Notes:

Signatures: A-D⁸.

Leaf D8 is blank.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device) and initial.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Meetkercke, Adolf van. Adolphi Mekerchi Brugensis De veteri et recta pronuntiatione linguae Graecae commentarius, jam auctus & recognitus. Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini ..., MDLXXVI [1576].

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1925 by Jas. W.T. Scott.

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate ("Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester") and ms. shelf-mark(?) on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. notes in Greek and Latin on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full vellum; 3 brief titles in ms. on spine; early vellum ms. used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries copy: upper board, front free endpaper and backstrip detached from textblock; top portion of front free endpaper torn off; leaf D1 mended at inner margin.

Cited in:

Adams H-1049

OCLC:

23627871