Mithridates : De differentiis linguarum tum ueterum tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt, Conradi Gesneri Tigurini obseruationes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.

Contributor:

Froschauer, Christoph, approximately 1490-1564, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Early works to 1800.

Language and languages.

Comparative linguistics--Early works to 1800.

Comparative linguistics.

Romanies--Language--Early works to 1800.

Romanies.

Romanies--Language.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, 78 leaves, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

De differentiis linguarum tum ueterum tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt

De differentiis lingvarvm tum ueterum tum quae hodie apud diuersas nationes in toto orbe terraru[m] in usu sunt

De differentiis linguarum tum veterum tum quae hodie apud diversas nationes in toto orbe terrarum in usu sunt

Fingerprint:

nee- i-do e.ca sude (3) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

Tiguri [Zurich] : Excudebat Froschouerus, Anno MDLV [1555]

Notes:

Date precedes place of printing on title leaf.

Signatures: A-K⁸.

Woodcut initials.

Printed marginalia.

Includes the Lord's Prayer in 22 languages.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. shelf-mark(?) ("3729C") in brown ink on front pastedown; ms. Latin bibliographical note on verso of front free endpaper; ms. inscription ("11602") in brown ink at foot of leaf A3r; some ms. underlines in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves K2-K7 largely detached from spine; small portion of fore-edge margin of leaf D7 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

VD 16 G 1797

Contains:

Lord's prayer. Polyglot

OCLC:

29127051