Le antichità di Beroso Caldeo, sacerdote : et d'altri scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, et Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie / tradotte, dichiarate, & con diuerse vtili, & necessarie annotationi, illustrate, da M. Francesco Sansovino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nanni, Giovanni, 1432?-1502.

Contributor:

Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586.

Berosus, the Chaldean

Salicato, Altobello, active 16th century, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Auctores vetustissmi

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Sources.

History, Ancient.

Penn Provenance:

St John, Francis, 1634-1705 (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 104, that is, 112 leaves ; 23 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

n-an .255 roE. nomi (3) 1583 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Presso Altobello Salicato, alla Libraria della Fortezza, 1583.

Notes:

Printer's device (Vacarro 451) on title page.

A collection of spurious fragments of the works of Greek and Roman writers in Italian translation first published in Rome in 1498 under title: Comentaria Ioannis Annii ... super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentiū confecta.

Signatures: [dagger]⁸ A-O⁸.

Leaf 112 misnumbered 104.

Woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.

Includes index.

Printed marginalia.

Register at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full speckled calf; all edges speckled blue.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Morigia, Paolo. Sommario cronologico diviso in sette libri. In Bergamo : Per Comin Ventura, 1601 -- Morigia, Paolo. Sommario chronologico del R.P.F. Paolo Morigia milanese dell'Ordine de' Giesuati di S. Girolamo. In Bergamo : Per Comino Ventura, MDXCII [1592]

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription "Francis St John 1704" on front free endpaper, possibily belonging to Francis St John (1634-1705), an English lawyer, historian and politician who built up a library of history books at his home at Longthorpe, UK.

Culture Class Collection copy has illegible ms. ownership inscription on title page.

Cited in:

Vaccaro, E. Marche dei tipografi del secolo XVI, 451

EDIT 16 CNCE 30566

OCLC:

123243884