Mores, leges, et ritus omnium gentium / per I. Boëmum ... ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus collecti ; ex Nicol. Damasceni Historia excerpta quaedam eiusdem argumenti ; itidem & ex Brasiliana I. Lerij historia ; Fides, religio, & mores Aethiopum ac deploratio Lappianae gentis, Damiano à Goes auctore ; De Aethiopibus etiam nonnulla ex Ios. Scaligeri lib. VII De emendatione temporum ; cum indice locupletissimo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boemus, Joannes, approximately 1485-1535.

Contributor:

Tournes, Jean de, active 1619-1653, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs--Early works to 1800.

Manners and customs.

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Genre:

Printed waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

504 pages, 24 unnumbered pages ; 13 cm (16mo)

Fingerprint:

iun- maa- meab dior (3) 1620 (R)

Place of Publication:

Cenevae : Apud I. Tornaesium, MDCXX [1620]

Notes:

The first (and principal) work in this collection was originally published in 1520 under title: Omnium gentium mores, leges, et ritus.

The apparent spelling "Cenevae" in t.p. imprint may be due merely to incomplete inking of type or to wear.

Signatures: a-2k⁸.

Woodcut printer's devices (title leaf and leaf 2k8v), initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Published in Geneva.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound in full calf; boards triple-ruled in blind; spine tooled in blind; all edges stippled red.

Penn Libraries copy has portions of early printed leaves in Greek and Latin used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. inscription ("1.6") in brown ink at foot of title leaf.

OCLC:

26316543