Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Hieroglyphicorum, ex sacris Aegiptiorum literis, libri octo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valeriano, Pierio, 1477-1560.

Contributor:

Torrentino, Lorenzo, -1563, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Animals--Folklore--Early works to 1800.

Animals.

Animals--Folklore.

Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic--Early works to 1800.

Egyptian language.

Hieroglyphics--Early works to 1800.

Hieroglyphics.

Symbolism--Early works to 1800.

Symbolism.

Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic.

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 120 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Hieroglyphicorum, ex sacris Aegiptiorum literis, libri octo

Fingerprint:

i:i- **** itta letr (3) 1556 (R)

Place of Publication:

Florentiae : [Lorenzo Torrentino], MDLVI [1556]

Notes:

Printed by Lorenzo Torrentino. Cf. EDIT 16, which quotes D. Moreni, Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino impressore ducale.

Illustrated title page; woodcut historiated initials.

Unfinished edition; text ends with 4th paragraph of book 9, with blind catchword "Sophistae" followed by [3] p. index to the first eight books. The complete text, in 58 books, was printed at Basel in this same year by Michael Isengrin, with title "Hieroglyphica sive De sacris Aegyptiorvm literis commentarii." Woodblocks from this Florence edition were transferred to Basel for the Isengrin edition.

With numerous woodcut illustrations throughout.

Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.

Signatures: (*)² a-k⁶ l².

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has copious ms. side notes and some underlines throughout.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 46855

OCLC:

81572936