Catalogus imperatorum, regum ac principum qui astrologicam artem amarunt, ornarunt & exercuerunt : quibus additae sunt astrologicae quaedam praedictiones verae ac mirabiles omnium temporum, desumptae ex Iosepho, Suetonio, Tacito, Dione, Xiphilino, Cuspiniano, & aliis, ex quibus certitudo ac veritas harum disciplinarum colligi potest : adiectus est praeterea tractatus de annis climactericis, vnà cum variis exemplis illustrium virorum qui annis ijsdem & praesertim anno 49, 56, & 63, periere : versus insuper nonnulli de planetis ac signis, mensiumq́ue laboribus, quae omnia tam lectu iucunda, quàm scitu necessaria videntur / collecta ab Henrico Rantzovio, ac edita à Theophilo Siluio, anno MDLXXX.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598.

Contributor:

Silvius, Theophilus.

Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Belgian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astrology--Early works to 1800.

Astrology.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Scott, Jas. W. T. (donor)

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

Physical Description:

109 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Catalogvs imperatorvm, regvm ac principvm qvi astrologicam artem amarunt, ornarunt & exercuerunt

Fingerprint:

t.s, e-i- o-e- lopo (3) 1580 (R)

Place of Publication:

Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini ..., MDLXXX [1580]

Notes:

Signatures: A-G⁸.

Leaf G8 is blank.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device with motto: Labore et constantia), illustration and initials.

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.

Cited in:

Adams, R-144

OCLC:

25879269