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Theatrum Caesareum historico-poeticum : quo omnium & singulorum Rom. Imperatorum, cum icones ex antiquis numismatibus expresse, tum vitae quàm brevissimè descriptae & deniq[ue] eorumdem Eulogia, ex tptimis quibusq[ue] Poëtis collecta, continentur / operâ & studio Hieronymi Megiseri ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Megiser, Hieronymus, approximately 1553-1618.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Numismatics--Rome--Early works to 1800.
- Numismatics.
- Numismatics--Holy Roman Empire--Early works to 1800.
- Emperors--Rome--Portraits--Early works to 1800.
- Emperors.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Portraits.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dallett, Joseph B. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 373 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portraits ; 15 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- s.D. 5479 ,&iæ SæAj (3) 1616 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Lentiis ad Istrum [that is, Linz an der Donau] : Ex typographejo Ioh. Planci ..., A. MDCXVI [1616]
- Notes:
- Many of the lives are accompanied by poetic excerpts by various hands. The last emperor recorded is Matthias (1557-1619).
- Signatures: (:)⁸ A-Z⁸ chi⁴.
- Leaf chi1 signed Z6; leaf chi4 is blank.
- Numerous errors in pagination.
- Woodcut devices and illustrations.
- Typographical ornaments.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Joseph B. Dallett.
- Penn Libraries copy has early ms. note in brown ink on back free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- VD 17 39:121333D
- Bircher, M. Kat. der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft, 1066
- OCLC:
- 5283376
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