Alexandreidos Galteri poetae clarissimi, libri decem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walter, of Châtillon, active 1170-1180.

Contributor:

Linck, Sebastian, -1548.

Eck, Oswald von, -1573.

Weissenhorn, Alexander, -1549, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Alexandreis

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Poetry.

Alexander.

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Genre:

Poetry.

Fine bindings.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, CXVI leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, coat of arms ; 16 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

nom, s.æ- erma OcCo (3) 1541 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Ingolstadii] : [Excudebat in officina sua Alexander Weissenhorn], MDXXXXI.

Notes:

Date of publication from title page; imprint from colophon: "Ingolstadii excudebat in officina sua Alexander Weissenhorn anno Domini MDXLI, pridie nonas Aprilis."

Edited by Oswald von Eck; biography of the author (leaf pi5) and printed marginal notes by Sebastian Linck.

Errata: leaves P5r-P6r.

Woodcuts: title page illustration of Alexander the Great mounted in full armor; coat-of-arms is of the House of Wittelsbach; inhabited initials.

Numerous errors in foliation.

Signatures: pi⁸ A-P⁸.

Leaf P8 blank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf: with gold filet cover edges; gold-stamped double ruled borders on front and back boards; gold-stamped ornamental turn-ins; six spine panels, separated by five raised gold-stamped bands, decorated with gold-stamped ornamental designs within gold-stamped double ruled borders & rules at head and foot of spine; author & title stamped in gold within red label on spine; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; marker.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes at the foot of the title page.

Cited in:

VD16, G 3849

Adams, G1356

OCLC:

80023437